… this time to a lot of his friends. [Blogmeister’s Note: A few months ago our colleague and friend, Mitchell Lazarus, used this space to thank an anonymous donor who provided blood stem cells to help treat his leukemia. Mitchell was in the middle of his treatment then, so his post left us all hanging: would the stem cell infusion work or not? We now know the answer.] Back in April I posted to CommLawBlog from a hospital bed while receiving lethal amounts of chemo drugs – lethal to my leukemia, we hoped, but also to me. The drugs were killing off blood stem cells I needed to survive. Doing this made sense only because an anonymous donor, a good biological match with me, was ready to contribute a bag of healthy stem cells to replace those I was losing to the drugs. Four months later, new test results show my leukemia is completely gone. An earlier blood cancer, multiple myeloma, which has been in “near complete remission” since treatment four…
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