Prayers for Robin

If you missed it this morning, one of my favorite people is facing yet another health crisis and doing it with grace and courage.  Robin Roberts of GMA has been diagnosed with MDS--a pre-leukemic condition where her body does no produce enough healthy blood cells.  Her previous treatment for breast cancer is most likely responsible for this current affliction and damn, that makes me mad.  We cure one disease only to cause another one.

She's known about this for a few months and has proceeded on with her job as the true professional she is.  Her older sister will be her bone marrow donor, and according to her doctors, is a near perfect match.  Well, thank heaven for that.  Take a moment if you are so inclined and send prayers Robin's way.  A bone marrow transplant is just no fun at all but if it saves your life, well, there ya go.

I'm thinking we all need to bank some healthy bone marrow for the future.  IMO, stem cells are going to be the Big Cure for the future for everything, despite the fact that some people are afraid of stem cell research.  Some of our parents were afraid of the polio vaccine, too, but look what it did.  I think most people are afraid of what 1) they don't know or understand 2) don't want to change their beliefs 3) so they claim something is "religiously wrong".  Me??  I don't think God would give us the brains to find cures if he didn't want us to use them.  Especially if the cure was already right there in our very own body.  C'mon...that's just a no brainer.