Patients Stories

Nurses are trained to help the sick and care for those who can’t care for themselves. Help people during their most vulnerable times. This was Kristen’s calling. She had just graduated from nursing ...
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Do you remember what you were doing when you were 13-years-old?  Maxine does, she is being treated for Severe Aplastic Anemia and looking for her life saving stem cell donor.  Maxine is ...
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Meet Ty, he is just 3 weeks old! This may just break your heart, but he needs a stem cell transplant to help save his life. He is ethnically diverse so finding a donor will be difficult. His heritage ...
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Yuan is an artist, educator, husband, and father.  He has end stage secondary myelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer.  After an extensive search of the Registry, Yuan has zero matches on the ...
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Yun -   Yeun (fondly referred to as “Yun”) is a husband, brother, son, uncle, cousin, friend, cook, basketball fan, and so much more. He was recently diagnosed with the extremely rare ...
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My name is Susi and I have two wonderful daughters. I'm a wife and sister. I was diagnosed with MDS in February of 2021 which progressed to AML by May. I love spending time with family and my little ...
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Those who know Dylan know that she's a force of nature, extremely strong, incredibly sensitive, creative, tender, and silly. She just turned eight years old, but her life has already taken a detour. ...
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Valerie (Baby Val) was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and will need intense treatment and a blood stem cell or bone marrow transplant. A Go Fund Me page has been set up for the family. Mom and ...
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Adrian is just two-years-old, he is an energetic and fun little guy who loves his toys and one-year-old sister.  He loves to eat snow.  He and his family went to Lake Tahoe last month when ...
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My sister is a beautiful bright light to me, my family, and everyone she meets.  I cannot imagine life without her, and I don’t even want to think about it.  Kriti has been battling leukemia ...
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My name is Kazumi and I am a Japanese American living in Arizona. I am a high school math teacher, and have also taught at Japanese weekend school for over two decades. I was diagnosed with acute ...
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This is Ailani. she is a 4-year old girl who is kind-hearted and polite.  Just before her 4th birthday, she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  Soon ...
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