My supervisor is going through a very difficult battle with leukemia right now. Her spirits are good, but she is sick and tired of all the side effects of the toxic chemotherapy. I believe she has a few more days and then she will be checked to see if she still has the disease. If not, then it’s time for a bone marrow transplant. Luckily, she has a brother who is a match.
She is managing to VPN in from her laptop at the hospital to do a little work, which is good for her, but she sounded terrible on the phone talking to her yesterday. I was sitting at her desk. There were two photographs there with her healthy, happy, and smiling. It was hard to believe this was the same person on the phone. It’s hard to believe this is the same person who occasionally has her boyfriend send in digital photos of her in her hospital bed…bald head and all.
The differences struck me. As I sit here, I expect her to come waltzing in the office with her cheery demeanor. She really is a great boss to work for and I want her back. We all do.
Three of us have divided up her tasks in the office. I help pay the bills and such. It’s amazing how much she did herself.
I know she can beat this disease. She did it before four years ago.
She passed along a web site that I thought is the National Bone Marrow Donor Program. It’s sounds like an easy way to save a life! If you have every considered donating something like this, this program may be for you.
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My supervisor is going through a very difficult battle with leukemia right now. Her spirits are good, but she is sick and tired of all the side effects of the toxic chemotherapy. I believe she has a few more days and then she will be checked to see if she still has the disease. If not, then it’s time for a bone marrow transplant. Luckily, she has a brother who is a match.
She is managing to VPN in from her laptop at the hospital to do a little work, which is good for her, but she sounded terrible on the phone talking to her yesterday. I was sitting at her desk. There were two photographs there with her healthy, happy, and smiling. It was hard to believe this was the same person on the phone. It’s hard to believe this is the same person who occasionally has her boyfriend send in digital photos of her in her hospital bed…bald head and all.
The differences struck me. As I sit here, I expect her to come waltzing in the office with her cheery demeanor. She really is a great boss to work for and I want her back. We all do.
Three of us have divided up her tasks in the office. I help pay the bills and such. It’s amazing how much she did herself.
I know she can beat this disease. She did it before four years ago.
She passed along a web site that I thought is the National Bone Marrow Donor Program. It’s sounds like an easy way to save a life! If you have every considered donating something like this, this program may be for you.
This entry was posted on July 8, 2009 at 9:03 am and is filed under Commentary, Random Whatever with tags bone marrow transplant, cancer, hospital, leukemia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.