Case Study Of Jacob's Life In Boston

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Jacob was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome at the tender age of one. In order to combat this disease Jacob needed a life-saving transplant and with no family matches the family turned to NMDP to find him a donor. Through the NMDP registry Jacob was able to find a donor that saved his life. Since his transplant Jacob has been thriving and doing very well but in order to continue to keep doing well Jacob must stay near the transplant center in Boston which is hundreds of miles away from the family’s home in Maine. Life in Boston was a lot more expensive than they had anticipated and it was made even more difficult because Jacob’s mom Jeana, needed to reduce the amount of hours she worked in order to care for