Raquel ‘vampirinha’ (Brazil)
I am Raquel, I became known as “vampirinha” vampire girl. I’m Brazilian, 32 years old and received a bone marrow transplantation from a REDOME donor in 2018. When I arrived at the hospital to perform a blood exam I found out the disease, I have been admitted for 32 days with the diagnose of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. I met the doctor who was responsible of my treatment and he introduced himself as a “ vampire boss”, because he loves blood. In a short period of treatment, I understood the reason of this nickname. I needed a lot of bags of blood and…