Fresh Air
Best Of: Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' / Visual Artist Mickalene Thomas
Terry Gross
She had had a recurrence of leukemia that she'd had about 11 years before that. And she needed a bone marrow transplant, her second one, because she had one during the first occurrence. And those are just awful. I mean, basically, they give you this very, very heavy-duty chemo that nearly kills you. It kills your immune system so that you don't fight the transplant.
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