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It seems like this has been a long time coming. \u00a0Tomorrow I enter the hospital to, basically, get a new immune system. \u00a0The plan is that it is an immune system that operates normally instead of attacking me.<\/p>\n

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This first stage is to pull a few million stem cells from my bone marrow. \u00a0The old way was to aspirate them with a long needle. \u00a0The new way is to utilize chemotherapy and other drugs to encourage the stem cells to enter the blood stream and then harvest them in a process that will take a couple of weeks. \u00a0Certainly a new adventure for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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