Overview
- Schlossberg says her acute myeloid leukemia was detected hours after she gave birth in May 2024 and carries a rare Inversion 3 mutation.
- Her treatment has included multiple rounds of chemotherapy, two bone-marrow transplants—first from her sister and then from an unrelated donor—and CAR‑T/immunotherapy trials.
- She recounts severe complications, including a life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage, cytokine release syndrome during experimental therapy, and a September Epstein–Barr infection that damaged her kidneys and forced her to relearn how to walk.
- She writes that clinicians told her the latest regimen might keep her alive for about a year, and she fears her young children may not remember her.
- The essay criticizes RFK Jr.’s policies and reported federal funding reductions under the Trump administration, citing strain at institutions such as Columbia, and it was published on the anniversary of JFK’s assassination.