How a stem cell transplant for MS is keeping me on my feet

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bridget snell

Aug 30, 20182 min read

I have stores of number 2 cards

Day +137 Yesterday was the first day of school for both girls. I have posted the obligatory first-day-back pictures. I have [honestly]...

bridget snell

Aug 18, 20182 min read

Thanks, Billy

Day +125 and positive it is. If this were a stage show, I'd cue the music "ain't no mountain high enough" and put up a big-screen photo...

bridget snell

Jun 7, 20182 min read

I am not Aaron Sorkin's demographic

rangry \răŋ-grē\ Having run, with anger. I'm approaching the three month mark. It's actually been 82 days since my transplant, 71 days...

bridget snell

Apr 24, 20183 min read

Don't call it a comeback

As of yesterday, we're out of severe neutropenia! We are out of the land of do-not-do-this-and-do-not-eat-that! This doesn't mean we can...

bridget snell

Apr 22, 20182 min read

Nothing Rhymes with Neutropenia

I've had the most boring of days these past few. Just laying around all day, consuming calories, multiplying cells, growing an immune...

bridget snell

Apr 17, 20183 min read

Sorry so late, had to party...

I have been meaning to catch everyone up since my last post, but you know how it is the couple of days after a big birthday party... It...

bridget snell

Apr 13, 20183 min read

Who's your Daddy, Stem Cells?!

11.8 million stem cells. [mic drop] [picks mic up and runs a Lysol wipe over it, then sprays down with Lysol, then applies Purell to...

bridget snell

Apr 12, 20182 min read

Harvest Day!

If this were a musical, the opening scene would be me, lightheaded and flushed, opening the curtains (and wincing at the light) and...

bridget snell

Apr 9, 20182 min read

Step Away from the Phone

It was bound to happen. Something was going to take a turn. I've run out of Grace and Frankie. Halfway through Brooklyn 99. So why not...

bridget snell

Apr 5, 20181 min read

Stem Stim

I'm going to try to type like my youngest daughter speaks-- just chop up the words to save time. Today no chemo but my first of 2x/day...

bridget snell

Apr 3, 20183 min read

Wasabi Nose

Yeah, that's a thing. It's the term one of the staff here uses to describe one of the many side effects of the chemo as it first entered...

bridget snell

Mar 2, 20182 min read

We get a cool flat in MTY

(With a view) Besides that mind-boggling treatment they'll give me in Monterrey, they give us an apartment to live in so that I don't...

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