Our son Blake is 14 years old and eight years post bone marrow transplant. While we celebrate milestones, it’s important to remember that the transplant did not cure his Fanconi anemia. It gave him something incredibly valuable, more time, but FA is still part of his life.
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Mike grew up in San Francisco and received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from San Francisco State University. As a child, he spent his summer vacations at the family ranch in Wyoming, where he developed a love for fishing and motorcycles. After moving to Santa Cruz, Mike worked for a large nonprofit for many years while cultivating his passion for surfing and racing motorcycles. Moving to Oregon with his two dogs, Lucky and Peanut, Mike has achieved his lifelong dream of building his motorcycle track and pursuing his love of surfing and the outdoors.
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When I was 20 weeks pregnant, my doctor recommended an amniocentesis so we could find out what was causing concerns during my pregnancy. They took amniotic fluid for testing, and that's when my husband and I learned our daughter had a rare genetic disorder called Fanconi anemia (FA). We found out that we were both carriers, something we had never known.
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