Michael Jackson visits 5-year old Leslie Robinette at a hospital, after she had undergone a bone-marrow transplant, leaving her with post-surgery depression; the patient has later on credited the famous visitor in person and publicly with enhancing her the will to live.
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Leslie Robinette was 6 years old when she first met Michael Jackson. An ailing little girl with barely any hair and a swollen stomach, Robinette suffered then, as now, from aplastic anemia caused by the genetic disease fanconi anemia, which she describes as being “like a little Pac-Man going after all your bone marrow.”
Jackson was only 15. Robinette now believes he must have been more nervous than she was.
In 1973, she and her family went to Seattle, where she stayed in Seattle Children’s Hospital – then The Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center. Robinette received a bone marrow transplant, which at the time was an experimental surgery. She was one of the youngest to ever have the procedure. She went through chemotherapy, radiation and an ever-changing plethora of medications. But worst of all, she was kept in isolation for three months.
She spoke to her sisters through walkie-talkies, and only her mother was allowed in the room. Doctors told the family they had done all they could do, but her condition just wasn’t improving.
Leslie Robinette Today
“After you go through all of that, you just get tired and want to go home; you kind of give up the fight,” Robinette said.
She listened to her favorite group, The Jackson 5, on a sterilized record player doctors allowed her to have.
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