Sunday, June 21, 2009

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Two months ago,
to the day,
I donated peripheral blood stem cells
to a 29-year old boy
from Texas
with Leukemia.

I don't know if he's even alive anymore
And it's beginning to haunt me every day.

I've been googling the phrases-

29 year old
Texas
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Blood Stem Cell
Recipient
Donor
20 year old
Wisconsin
April 2009

in dozens of searches, in dozens of orders.
Hoping to find a facebook page, a blog, anything
telling me that this boy is still alive.

Maybe,
he will search some of those words,
that will lead him to this post.
And he can tell me that he is OK.

I don't need praise
or even a thank you.

I just need to know that you're OK.

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