Virginia Hansen had an itch. It was spreading and becoming worse. Even after her primary care physician diagnosed allergies and prescribed treatment, the itch, and other symptoms, refused to go away. In desperation, Virginia finally went on the Internet and made the frightening discovery that every one of her symptoms matched those of a cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In a personal saga in which fortitude overcomes fear, Virginia endures chemotherapy, radiation, long-awaited remission, and relapse, before undergoing her last hope of survival—a transplant of her very own stem cells. In a
time when stem cells are a topic of both hope and controversy, Virginia tells a story of  determination and decision in which she opts to go along with anything the medical profession has in it arsenal to save her life, in a pledge she has made to herself and to her loved ones.