After Our Son Died in Second Marrow Harvest, Husband Regretted

To save my daughter after her leukemia came back, I went through six rounds of ovarian stimulation, two miscarriages, and a postpartum hemorrhage, and finally gave birth to Leslie, the one child who was a perfect match for her. The year Leslie turned five, his marrow was harvested. Those life-saving cells that should have gone into Sophie's transplant chamber were signed away by my husband, Patrick Vance, and diverted to the son of Melanie Acevedo, his old flame.