Hearing the words “blood transfusion” still sends chills down my spine. The emotional response my entire body felt when I heard those words for the first time from a doctor is still traumatic. “I wasn’t supposed to get one of these,” I thought. I had just had a double-lung transplant a year earlier, and this type of treatment could cause rejection in organ transplantation. When it comes to life and death matters, calculated risks are…

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