REGENERATION
While visiting some patients at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County, I met a special young boy named Carlos. Having been treated for ten years for leukemia, he was now on his death bed, lying on a pack of ice to try to control his surging fever. Although their careful treatments of toxic chemicals managed to bring Carlos back into remission, the doctors decided to perform a bone-marrow transplant. They knew this was his only hope for survival. The key to this complex and risky endeavor was to find a donor. The donor had to be someone in perfect health, someone whose bone marrow was an exact match of Carlos’, and someone who was willing to undergo the very painful procedure of multiple bone marrow extractions. Carlos was fortunate to have a brother, Christopher, who was the perfect match for him. They began the delicate procedure at UCLA Medical Center. First they placed Carlos under a special machine which blasted his body with…
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