Hi, I'm new here. Has anyone out there had a Stem Cell Transplant - I am bricking it.
Only two weeks to go and I am getting scared, having to face at least six weeks in isolation going through extensive chaemotherapy and other severe drugs to kill all my bloods and stem cells.
The crazy thing is that I feel normal, except for chronic fatigue. This is the thing with this illness. I was diagnosed with one and half years to live, but I am not ill, in that I have no pain and feel fairly normal, but my bloods are dying, so I will get weaker and weaker until I get an infection or bleed out.
But I have been offered a Stem Cell Transplant which could give me five to seven extra years of life, but it could also kill me.What a decision it was, to put myself through a painful six months of being really ill with all the treatment only to find I might die anyway.
My friends say I have been strong, but I must admit now, privately I am sh.... scared of what is ahead of me. It is the fear of the unknown.
Dolphin
