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Dear Amy,
Like Irene, I too was very healthy when I had my stem cell transplant. I was in the hospital (isolation unit) for a month too. My experience was different than Irene's though because I experienced all the bad stuff! I was a very sick gal. When I finally did go home I landed back in the hospital within a week with a raging fever. They were so worried about me, cause I just didn't have any immunities to fight off whatever it was attacking me. After all the big gun antibiotics they pumped in me I eventually got better, but it was a scary time.
I have to believe that it wasn't all for nothing. It did get me a little over 4 years before I had my first recurrence, and was able to get Herceptin, which has been amazingly effective for me.
I will be celebrating 10 years from original diagnosis in February and still feel it was worth it. Of course if I had known about Herceptin back then, that would have changed everything!
Best Regards, Kim in CA
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