A Quote by Karen Duffy

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Karen Duffy

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Active Also Bone Bone Marrow Eyes Feeling Feet Fingertips Marrow

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Karen Duffy
American - Actress
Born: May 23, 1962

The thought of going through a bone marrow transplant, which in my case called for a life-threatening dose of chemotherapy followed by a total replacement of my body's bone marrow, was scary enough. But then I learned that finding a donor can be the scariest part of all.

Suleika Jaouad

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Jack London

Soon enough I would learn the specific diagnosis: myelodysplastic syndrome, a disorder of the bone marrow. In my case, the disease growing inside me had morphed into acute myeloid leukemia. I would need intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to save my life.

Suleika Jaouad

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

Nathan Deal

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

Gregory Colbert

Dozens of chemotherapy treatments and one bone marrow transplant later, I wish I could say that I've mastered the art of not working. But there are still days when I wake up feeling simultaneously restless and bored.

Suleika Jaouad

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

B. B. King

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

Knut Hamsun

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Robin Williams

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

John Piper

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

Hafez

There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.