When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
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Chapter 23 - NO MARROW NEEDLE YET
I had imagined being taken straight into a room and having a needle drilled into my bone to see whether I matched.
That is not how initial donor matching worked.
They started with blood.
High-resolution HLA typing.
Routine tests.
Medical history.
Questions about medications.
Past surgeries.
Infections.
Pregnancies.
Mental health.
Everything.
I also met with an independent donor advocate.
She did not work for my parents.
She was not there to save Hannah at any cost.
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She was there for me.
That difference mattered.
