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I Blame the Hemoglobin

There seems to be an inverse relationship between my Hemoglobin level and Anxiety level. Hemoglobin is a protein in the red blood cell that carries oxygen through the body. As the hemoglobin decreases, I become more easily annoyed — with myself and everyone around me. I get the anemia double-whammy from the alpha thalassemia trait (red cells are… Read More »

The Call and The Twitter

The CALL Yesterday afternoon I received “The Call” we’ve been hoping for. I had to pull the car off the road so I could concentrate. It was my stem cell transplant coordinator. She said that there are 2 perfect matching donors (10 for 10 match of HLA tissue sequence) for me. One of them is… Read More »