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Katie receives life-saving bone marrow transplant

Photo credit: Newsday / Bill Davis | Katie at Stony Brook University Hospital getting ready for a blood transfusion. At right it nurse Lori Seda.

As soon as Katie Trebing checks into Room 935, Stacy hangs construction paper "Get Well" cards created by a school class in Brentwood. She puts up a string of decorative lights with tiny lampshades in pinks and purples and plaids she bought at Target. On the window ledge she sets a snow globe with an angel in it that Stacy's mom gave to Katie.

Katie's chemo regimen begins

The chemotherapy...

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