Dr. Brian Koffman, founder of the CLL Society and a family friend, asked me to contribute a piece about my personal experience with a marrow transplant to the society’s inaugural e-newsletter. For the CLL Tribune, I adapted excerpts from my memoir, then fleshed out some of the medical jargon with definitions for lay readers. Feel free to read the column, which I named “My Big Fat (Life-Saving) BMT.”