we're talking about sickle-cell anem anemia. sickle-cell disease this morning here on "viewpoint," and patricia, pam la newton, i'm sorry. you had the disease before your bone marrow transplant and one of the problems that sickle-cell patients have to deal with is blood transfusions. they have to constantly get them. you were telling me in the break how you had to undergo transfusions sometimes twice a month? >>? e. yes. not only just because of the extreme pain, sometimes my blood count would drop. so i would receive a transfusion, but sometimes my body wouldn't necessarily take the transfusion. so they would have to infuse me again. >> uh-huh. >> sometimes it would be once a month. sometimes it would be twice a month. you know, but sometimes it would be over the period of maybe a year, monthly, just receiving transfusions. >> that must have been pretty difficult to deal with on a reg l lar basis. how did that affect your family life? >> it affected me because it required me to be in the hospital. sometimes if it was during a t