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I remember when I was about 14 years old. My family had a computer we all shared because this was before everyone had their own computers.
Well
Being the deviant weeb I was back then, I had been collecting hundreds of nsfw gay drawings of various anime boys.

Now, I was very good at hiding these pictures in layers of files that no body had time to search through so I thought my secret was safe.

One day my mom brings home something called a ‘zune’. These were slightly before/same time the iPods were becoming popular but iPods ultimately won.
When my mom attached the zune to the computer it downloaded ALL pictures on the desktop regardless of what file they were in.

I came home to my porn on the screen and I slipped away into my room. A sense of complete dread filling my body.
I had my youngest sister go out to see how bad it really was.
There on the screen was a naked drooling Naruto character in bondage. My sister bowed her head and told me there was no hope…I was a dead man.

To this day. Almost 10 years later.
My mom has never talked about it.
There was never a talk.

It haunts me to this day..

I didn’t mention that in order to get all those pictures off her zune. She had to click on them one by one and delete them manually.

She had to see every single picture I had ever saved on that computer.

She saw it all.

karma

Relief As Doctors Now Have Permanent Cure for Sickle Cell Anaemia - The Herald

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From the University of Illinois-Chicago press release:

In the new procedure, patients receive immunosuppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation — a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.

Next, donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.

Julius and Desmond Means were cured of sickle cell disease at UI Health through a chemotherapy-free stem cell transplant in 2013. Their older brother, Clifford (center), was the donor.

In the reported trial, the researchers transplanted 13 patients, 17 to 40 years of age, with a stem cell preparation from the blood of a tissue-matched sibling. Healthy sibling donor-candidates and patients were tested for human leukocyte antigen, a set of markers found on cells in the body. Ten of these HLA markers must match between the donor and the recipient for the transplant to have the best chance of evading rejection.

In a further advance of the NIH procedure, physicians at UI Health successfully transplanted two patients with cells from siblings who matched for HLA but had a different blood type.

In all 13 patients, the transplanted cells successfully took up residence in the marrow and produced healthy red blood cells. One patient who failed to follow the post-transplant therapy regimen reverted to the original sickle cell condition.

None of the patients experienced graft-versus-host disease, a condition where immune cells originating from the donor attack the recipient’s body.

One year after transplantation, the 12 successfully transplanted patients had normal hemoglobin concentrations in their blood and better cardiopulmonary function. They reported less pain and improved health and vitality.

Four of the patients were able to stop post-transplantation immunotherapy without transplant rejection or other complications.

“Adults with sickle cell disease can be cured without chemotherapy – the main barrier that has stood in the way for them for so long,” Rondelli said. “Our data provide more support that this therapy is safe and effective and prevents patients from living shortened lives, condemned to pain and progressive complications.”

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Allura: The lions choose their pilots, it is a mystical bond and can not be forced 

Keith(banging on the red lion’s forcefield): IT’S ME, KEITH. YOUR- I AM YOUR PALADIN 

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