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Unlike most people, I have more than one birthday. The first celebrates my birth and the second, Feb. 9, is the day I received my stem cell transplant. In the fall of 2000 I was diagnosed with primary amyloidosis. If you’ve heard of multiple myeloma, then you are close to understanding the illness. I was fortunate that my primary care physician Dr. Stephen Strategos had recently studied the rare disease.
After months of chemotherapy, I entered the City of Hope National Medical Center for a three-month stay. There I was given daily injections to increase my stem cell production. My transplant used my own cells, not that of a donor. After a couple of weeks, tests determined that I’d developed enough stem cells. The harvesting procedure involved straining out the cells that were then irradiated and frozen to await my transplant.
I’d by lying if I said I wasn’t afraid when I entered the isolation ward, and the room I would call home for over a...
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