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Beth,
It's both a blessing and a curse to be faced with the choice you have. It's a blessing that you are otherwise healthy, doing well with stable counts, are at an excellent care facility, have gotten multiple opinions, have a matched sibling, and have a choice of treatment. It's a curse that you and your doctors have to make such an important decision, about whether or not to have the stem cell transplant, without having enough information to make it clear to you what's best.
My wife and I faced something similar. Even though we had three doctors' opinions favoring a transplant, we could have said no, so the final decision was ours. We decided the transplant was the better option and in hindsight that turned out to be the right choice for us (because it was successful). But it's hard to deny that either choice was a calculated gamble.
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