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Old 03-31-2008, 09:08 PM
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fareastY fareastY is offline
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Default Thank you all!

Howdy all,

I very much appreciate all your comments!
A rep from JMDP told me exactly the same things as everyone pointed out.
1. The procedure might worsen my conditions
2. Long-term medication use might affect on the recipient's lowered immunity.

I don't know it's called a random selection. My HLA matched to one recipient's (or the other way around?). That's why JMDP contacted me last week.
Like DiMarie said (hi DiMarie!), RSD from the procedure has been my main concern. In fact, JMDP reported that one donor had developed RSD and the other one had developed left ulnar neuropathy after the procedure.
I, of course, backed off when I read the report, but was urged to pursue this for unknown reasons. Maybe because my sister died of leukemia years and years ago when bone marrow transplant from non-blood related individuals wasn't available here (our HLAs didn't match. We had to give up this option back then). Or I haven't contacted for over 10 years by JMDP and suddenly there is my match, and have felt some feelings toward the recipient.
I don't know why. I just can't explain how I've been feeling.

Anywho, I'll let you all know how it will turn out.

Yasuko
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