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a NEW Lease on Life

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Phew!   This has been a long journey but 2/3rds has been covered with the help and blessings of Family and Friends. Yesterday new life was given to me by the transfusion of Stem cells from our daughter Srishti. So Yay, Happy Independence Day to India and Happy Raakhee to all loving brothers and sisters. Phew! This has been a long journey but 2/3rds has been covered with the help and blessings of Family and Friends. Yesterday new life was given to me by the transfusion of Stem cells from our daughter Srishti. So Yay, Happy Independence Day to India and Happy Rakhee to all loving brothers and sisters. The hospital staff were congratulating me by saying Happy Birthday, as it indeed is a new birth for all my blood cells. The last 4 weeks had been hectic in preparation for Day ‘0’, first by killing all my blood cells via Chemotherapy and finally by a whole body radiation before the transplant. The transplant in itself was pretty painless for me but not so for Srishti s...