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When Peter Kirk finally returned home from the hospital in June of 2021—and was alone in his apartment for the first time; his children at school, his wife out walking the dog—he decided he could walk from the couch to the refrigerator to get a Gatorade. With all his strength he opened the fridge door and reached for a drink. He took a few deep breaths and twisted the cap again, and again, to no avail. It was too difficult to open, and so he put the unopened drink back into the refrigerator and made his way back to the couch.
A few weeks prior, Kirk had undergone a stem cell transplant, also called a bone marrow transplant—a procedure where healthy donor cells are given to a blood cancer patient to replace diseased ones—at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.  When Peter Kirk finally returned home from the hospital in June of 2021—and was alone in his apartment for the first time; his children at school, his wife out walking the dog—he decided he could walk from the couch to the refrigerator to get a Gatorade. With all his strength he opened the fridge door and reached for a drink. He took a few deep breaths and twisted the cap again, and again, to no avail. It was too difficult to open, and so he put the unopened drink back into the refrigerator and made his way back to the couch.
A few weeks prior, Kirk had undergone a stem cell transplant, also called a bone marrow transplant—a procedure where healthy donor cells are given to a blood cancer patient to replace diseased ones—at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. |
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