Twin sisters discover they are identical after one is diagnosed with leukaemia

📰 Original title: 'I wanted to save her life'

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(I did not think this would be a regular feature, but here we are...)

In this episode, Diabaté tells Carol that they cannot be turned without their consent. He explains that's because the "others" need stem cells, and that would involve sticking a large needle into the bone of the hip.

I've got a stem cell transplant for my cancer treatment. I can assure you that my stem cells were harvested without inserting a needle into the bone of my hip.

They could have kept the explanation to the idea that the "others" would have to submit the humans that weren't turned yet to a medical procedure, and that this would require consent. It's already been well established by that time that they don't want to do stuff without consent.

Why gild the lily with poo by over explaining?

Yes, it is possible to harvest stem cells by sticking a needle into the bone marrow, but that's a procedure that is no longer *normally* used, because it is highly invasive.

My stem cells were harvested as follows. In the days prior to the day of harvest, I injected myself with a product that would stimulate the production of stem cells and push them into my bloodstream. Then I spent one morning at the hospital hooked to a machine that looks like a dialysis machine. This machine took the stem cells out of my blood. Much less invasive than having a needle stuck into your hipbone.

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I still like the show, but man...

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Yeah, I'm so great at remembering anniversaries that I even forgot the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis.

I blame.... chemo brain! 😂

Yeah, it was on Nov 17th 2020 that they performed the brain biopsy that diagnosed me with a PCNS lymphoma. The next day, the oncologist they had assigned to me gave me the news. I gave my assent to treatment, and they immediately rolled me from neurology to oncology because I was *this* close to being dead.

We started chemo. After two rounds of it, I entered remission, but I had to go through all 8 rounds of it (or 9 rounds depending on how you count), and later I had a stem cell transplant.

Five years after this ordeal, I'm still alive. 🥳

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Current standard treatment in newly diagnosed myeloma, by Dr. Jennifer Cooperrider.

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A nice thing about getting a stem cell transplant is that after the procedure, you have to be revaccinated against everything. So I don't have to wonder whether I've been vaccinated against the measles.

"Are there other nice things about a stem cell transplant?"

Well.... there's the fact that it most likely saved you from death. That's a plus. Other than this, no. There's nothing else. It is a procedure that may kill you and which is replete with pain and misery.

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