Positivity: Giving thanks for gift of life
From the Canadian side of Niagara Falls:
Blood transfusions, marrow saved mom
Jun 08, 2007Jennifer Rogers was 20, a college student and a new mom when doctors told her she had only a 50 per cent chance of staying alive.
Rogers had aplastic anemia, a condition in which her body could not produce enough blood to survive. She was told that without a bone marrow transplant she would die within two years. With one, she had only a coin flip’s chance of surviving the condition.“I had a one-year-old daughter. I was like, “What the hell? What kind of choice is that?’ ” she said as she thought back to 2005 when her life was turned upside-down. “What other 20-year-old is faced with this?”
For months, Rogers visited McMaster Hospital in Hamilton several times a week to receive blood transfusions before she had a successful bone marrow transplant in March 2006.
Rogers, now 21, was forced to write a will before the transplant. She says she is extremely lucky to be alive.
“I can’t put it into words at all,” she says.
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