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Old Tue Jul 29, 2014, 03:05 PM
AAMarge AAMarge is offline
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For anyone happening upon this thread later, an update: Mixed chimerism was the undoing of my daughter's BMT. "Something" (we will never know what) riled up her immune system, and her original cells spent 2013 in a repeat of 2010....slowly destroying her bone marrow. Her cells won, and her sister's cells lost.

She was retransplanted in Nov 2013 with the same sibling donor, but a harsher conditioning to destroy more recipient cells. A few bumps in the road, but moving along in her recovery. It was a little surreal to repeat the whole business, but the writing was on the wall.
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Connie, Mother of AA daughter (age 21) MSD BMT 8/2010; struggling with dropping blood counts in 2013 after 2 great years. Second BMT 11/4/13.
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