My Parents Threw Me Out At 16 Until My Sister Confessed The Truth Ten Years Later

16. Platelets 22,000, normal range 150,000 to 400,000. Prognosis without transplant: three to six weeks. Prognosis with transplant if I matched: sixty percent five-year survival.

I read the numbers aloud in a clinical tone.

Catherine stared at me. “You understand all this?”

“This is what I do,” I said.

I checked the emergency contacts. Parents listed first.continue reading …