Wendi's Story: Chemo and Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant [Part 2]

It's excruciating to see your identity stripped away and conform with the look of a cancer patient. In Part 2, Wendi describes how she started chemo therapy and left that first round with bad news: she wasn't done.

With the confirmation of her diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and the discovery that her journey was far from over, she needed to receive a bone marrow transplant. Miraculously, her brother was a perfect match and was able to supply the needed stem cells.

The process of the transplant was draining, though, and with a weakened immune system, Wendi had to endure sickness, weakness, and relative isolation.

Choices that she once had the opportunity to make—how to do her hair, what to eat, where to go—are now being whittled away. With so few choices available, the thing that kept her human was her choice to be kind to the people with whom she interacted.
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Watch Part 1 here:
   • Wendi's Story: First Symptoms & Diagn...  
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