Link: http://susanbutcher.com

...who underwent a bone marrow transplant in mid-May in Seattle for Leukemia, is that she has been battling an outbreak of GVHD (Graft vs. Host Disease) for the last 2 weeks. This is not uncommon in bone marrow transplants where the bone marrow came from an anonymous donor. Even a close match donation can cause GVHD. Susan has been fighting the side-effects of the GVHD and the steroids that they have had to give her to combat it. Still, she seems to be fighting as hard as she fought to win all of those Iditarods. You can get updates on her condition (a no-holds-barred weblog of what it is like to go through a bone marrow transplant) here. Patient ID is butcher, Password is butcher1.