Welcome back. Today, I want to write a bit of an open-ended letter to the city of Boston and share the love that I have for the city with you all. As someone who has spent their whole life more or less living in New England, Boston has always been one of the more special…

If you caught last week’s post on pre-transplant testing, consider this the second installment. Today, I’ll be diving into what goes into actually planning for a stem cell transplant, more specifically, the logistics and everything that you might want to consider before admission. Since there’s a lot to cover, I’ll be breaking this post into…

Today, I’ll be breaking down what the build up to transplant has looked like for me so far. While I went into detail in a previous post about the road to my diagnosis, I thought it made sense to dedicate a separate post to everything that came after. Specifically, the appointments and testing I’ve gone…

Today, I want to talk about where my health stands heading into transplant. Over the past few years, I’ve made a conscious effort to build a solid foundation when it comes to my health. A foundation I now plan to lean on heavily throughout this process. I’ve found that it’s easy to take your health…

Hello again. Today’s post is all about how I arrived at my GATA2 deficiency diagnosis. The path, the tests, and everything in between. In hindsight, it was a relatively straightforward sequence of escalating tests, but it still involved many appointments, many doctors, and more blood draws than I think any one person should reasonably be…

Welcome back. Today’s post will likely be a bit longer and more technical than the first, as I want to take the time to explain more about the genetic disorder I was diagnosed with. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first post, I would recommend doing that now. It’s a relatively quick…

Hi there. My name is Ethan. I’m 24 years old, and I currently live in Connecticut. Six months ago, in January 2025, I was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition known as GATA2 deficiency. I’ll be going into more detail about the diagnosis in the next post, but for now, the key thing to know…