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I thought it was a good show but maybe they exaggerated the toxicity of the whole Stem Cell Transplant process. How each patient reacts depends on their initial health, the progress of disease before transplant, age, and probably a host of other factors. The show made it sound like every person who gets a stem cell transplant will be taken all the way to near death before getting the actual transplant, with all sorts of complications to follow. For me, so far coming up on Day +60, it has been going to plan. I hardly had any complications before the transplant and none since. But the show was about end of life health care, so you would expect them to use the worse case scenarios.
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Jim, MDS RAEB-1 with rare t(6;9)(q23;q34) translocation resulting in DEK-NUP214; dx August 2010 at age 45; SCT Sept 30, 2010 with male sibling match. Follow Progress at http://jimschmitz.wordpress.com/
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