Rejection { Day -6 }

Additional complications will arise, once the bone marrow has been transplanted, such as

• graft rejection

FACTS: Graft rejection happens when the recipient's cells reject the transplanted donor cells. (PMH)

• graft failure

FACTS: Graft failure happens when transplanted bone marrow does not produce new cells. (PMH)

• Graft Versus Host Disease

FACTS: Graft Versus Host Disease or GVHD is a condition in which the transplanted donor cells see organs of the recipient as foreign and attacks them. (PMH)

Signs of GVHD are:

• skin rash
• fever
• diarrhea
• abdominal cramps
• jaundice
• dry burning eyes
• dryness and soreness in the mouth

Sometimes, some of these complications are desired when occured in minimum. With the occurrence of GVHD, it is a sign that the donor's marrow has engrafted.

REFLECTIONS: Some of these complications are very serious and may occur within weeks, or months and even years after the transplant. There is nothing more I can ask everyone but to PRAY. I may not know what is the exact plan that God has for me but I do know that it is good. Please pray that everything will happen in the next few days, months or years, are HIS will and not mine...

"This is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hear us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him."

I John 5:14-15, NIV.