Title: Student of Life

Gender: Female

Age: 48

Sun Sign: Taurus

Location: Plano, TX

Well, I just celebrated the one-year anniversary of my bone marrow transplant, so….as the saying goes…..I guess I'll live!  What a surprise!  ;) 

I just read that recovery is just as truly a 'crisis' as getting sick was in the first place.  It totally makes sense to me.  Now I gotta figure out what to do with the rest of my life, which I truly thought was not gonna be an issue….

(From July, 2006)  Just came home after a long stay at the hospital.  I'm recovering from a bone marrow transplant. No fun, obviously, but a real miracle combining both medical technology and body wisdom.  I am incredibly grateful to an anonymous donor in Germany.

Since I was diagnosed with a bone marrow disorder two years ago (and then leukemia last year), my perspective, priorities and general attitude toward life has changed more dramatically and completely than I would ever have imagined. 

I'm grateful, happy and a bit surprised to be alive!  I feel I've been given a second chance at life and I want it to mean something.  I'm not sure what it is yet, but I want to do something different.   


“…and all of a sudden, life was gorgeous broken glass.”
    -Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli

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