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Same experience
I had an awful experience...my brother (with whom I had not had a very good relationship prior to donation) ended up suffering horribly and dying from host/graft reaction. His wife then proceeded to cut me off from my nephews, the only connection I had to my brother. This situation has also caused irreparable damage to my relationship with other family members. I live with guilt over my cells "killing" my brother and nobody in my family understands. Also, the hospital (Tampa Cancer center) treated me with NO respect. One of the nurses commented to me "if you're so worried about the care your brother is receiving, why don't you move back to Florida?" I had lived in NC for about ten years and had children in school and a job and a husband with a job in NC. If I had it to do over again, I would NOT have donated. My brother and his family and my mother pretty much disappeared after it all was done and I ended up with emotional devastation and guilt and he died anyway.
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