OurManlyPeace

I hope more people see this. While OPs story is wonderful, and it's great that there are no recurring problems, shunts are EXTREMELY common procedures for almost ever patient in neurology that requires surgery.

If I made it sound like this AMA should not be occurring, I apologize. That was not my intent whatsoever. Because you prove a very good point, that those not in the medical profession have most likely never been exposed to this vernacular or anything related to OP's case, which trust me, I thoroughly enjoy reading that another neuro patient is living their life to the fullest. But just as you said, there are people whose encounter this at some point, which is why a comment from people in the medical field saying that this is common, many people get it, and you shouldn't be afraid or nervous, can be an awesome reassurance as well, which was my original intent. Thank you for such an extremely eloquent response pointing this out! There needs to be more redditors like yourself.

edit:I DO in fact think this is a beneficial AMA. Whoopsy.

That I can understand, and couldn't agree with you more. Again, thank you for your well thought out response earlier. I hope more people see it!

That is definitely not the case. Bone marrow transplants do not always take in the long term - the transplant itself should not cause any undue harm to the patient, however it is far from a guarantee that it will work long term. Furthermore, the transplant procedure will leave the patient immunocompromised for a significant period of time, and there is a serious risk for infection for the first few months.

That being said - the rate of success is entirely dependent upon the initial condition that the patient had to begin with that necessitated the transplant in the first place (ie cancer, cognenital immunodeficiency, etc.).

Thanks for posting this - I'm honestly pretty disappointed in the OPs that this information wasn't included in the post!! Seems like a pretty logical thing to want to get more people to sign up to be donors when they all had positive experiences with it, as I would think that would be their main message here today.