Aplastic Anemia

A Rare Case of Aplastic Anemia Later in Life Won't Stop Me

I grew up in Louisiana - born in New Orleans and raised in Lafayette. I joined the Army, and went to Seattle and worked at Madigan General Hospital where I met my wife. I was then sent to Vietnam. After I returned, I worked for a bank in Seattle for 16 years, becoming a vice president and manager. I helped finance an auto auction as part of this job, and as a result, I fell in love with the car businesses.  I was accepted for a Ford training program that lasted for two years at a Seattle Ford dealership.

Thankful to Be Here and Alive

I was a very active 17-year-old when I got the news. It was October of 2005, the beginning of high school basketball season in my hometown of Beckley, West Virginia, when I became ill. I thought it was a really bad cold or even the flu, but I was used to being sick and fighting through it, so I didn’t think much about it.

Hetty Carraway, M.D.

Institution
The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
Dr. Hetty Caraway received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, and her fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In addition to her medical training, Dr. Carraway earned an MBA from the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University in the Business of Health. She is currently a Staff Physician at the Taussig Cancer Institute in the Division of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Carraway is American

Shyamala Navada, MD

Institution
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Dr. Navada is an assistant professor in the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently, she did an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor prior to completing a hematology/oncology fellowship at Mount Sinai. She is currently completing a Masters of Science in Clinical Research in the graduate school at Mount Sinai. Her primary clinical and research interests are myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the
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