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How a stem cell transplant for MS is keeping me on my feet
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bridget snell
Mar 27, 20192 min read
Hand me my Ticonderoga
There are few days on my calendar that are written in pen. An average day is fluid and a pencil is the wisest tool. But today was blank...
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bridget snell
Mar 11, 20193 min read
One non blonde
Day +330 I realized this morning that It's been a year since I launched this blog. That means you've heard just about enough to speak...
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bridget snell
Feb 14, 20193 min read
I need Joel Schumacher
Day +305 It's been 305 days since transplant, 116 days since my first glass of wine, 116 days since my first haircut, 53 days since my...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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bridget snell
Mar 1, 20185 min read
Wait, Bridget has MS?
So, yes. I have Multiple Sclerosis. It's not something that you see when you look at me (when you look at me you just think "She really...
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