Comment on Girl, 8, first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs in breakthrough
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year agoI heard bone marrow is really aweful and requires a lot of recovery but maybe that is just the recieving end or something.
nikhil@beehaw.org 1 year ago
That was back in the day when it had to be extracted from inside the thigh bone. When I donated 10 years ago, it was a few injections upfront to increase your natural stem cell count in the blood, followed by a 4 hr at a clinic to extract them using a dialysis machine. The narrative about bone marrow being painful needs to die. It might be de motivating potential donors.
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
oh thats wonderful. Yeah I think I have holdovers from when the procedure first came out.