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Heidi is scheduled to get Erica’s kidney August 10th. She’s been cancer-free for a year, and now her other major health problem, the one that has made her despair of living so many times as she has endured dialysis in its many horrific forms, is going...

Anxiety looks like this: Three sisters on speaker phone for the hour and a half leading up to The Call, when the doctor will say if the cancer is back or not. The one-year bone marrow biopsy was done twelve days ago. One sister had a bad feeling about...

There’s a certain smell of soap that makes me cringe.The sharp edge of antisepticThat baptized our hands as we went in and out of the room on B6/6.It’s the smell of long nights when I fought against the drone of the beeping machinesThat kept us awake...

It’s the day we’ve been waiting for for the past year and a half. Today at 10am, Heidi gets hooked up with needles and infused with the bone marrow Erica donated a few weeks ago. From here, we enter the highest risk part of her journey. But it’s also...