blood donation
aardvarchaeology | August 11, 2015I've been a blood donor for over twenty years. The other day a doctor called me and asked me if instead of my normal quarterly donation, I'd be willing to give a few extra hours of my time along with a chunk of white blood cells. I said yes.
There's this transplant patient at a hospital in Stockholm. Like all such patients this person, let's call her Joan (I have no idea what her real name is), is on immune suppressant drugs to keep her body from tossing out the transplanted organ. She now seems to have contracted a difficult infection. Unfortunately she's developed antibodies against run-of-…