Woo Hoo!

First the routine stuff... Anna came back to the hospital on Tuesday for the start of the next chemo round. Her god sister, Lele, is in town so she has been staying with Anna over at the hospital. Treatment is proceeding forward with no complications. The Doctor who performed the sinus surgery stopped by to check her out and confirmed everything looks good.
 
In a strange bit of timing, around 10am today, I decided to call the Nurse who was handling the Bone Marrow Donor search process. It had been a couple weeks since we spoke, so I wanted to check in with her. Unbeknownst to me, at the same time Anna received a call from the nurse who actually coordinate the Bone Marrow Transfer Procedure. So, at the same time we were independently getting the same update from two different people. They have located someone who is a suitable donor. The person is not a perfect match, but is a 9 out of 10 match... which is definitely in the acceptable range to proceed with the procedure. From what we understand, the potential donor is a 32 year old male in good health. He's apparently been contacted already and submitted to additional blood testing, so we know he's alive and from what we can tell is continuing to participate and proceed with everything. Our next step is to go over and meet with the Doctor who will perform the transfer procedure. With Anna in the hospital (this guy works out of a different hospital), it probably won't be until sometime around Wednesday of next week until we meet with him. In theory, when we meet with him we'll start talking about actual dates to perform the procedure and obtain more information. As I was hanging up with the one nurse, Anna was calling me to let me know the news. Very odd the way the timing worked out.
 
There are obviously a lot of moving parts here, but this is fantastic news and we'll hopefully be moving forward very quickly at this point. The nurses we spoke with today, thought that it'd probably be about four weeks from now before the procedure actually begins, but we'll know more in another week.
 
Today was a good day. Lots of emotions all around. It felt like we were kind of just in stuck in limbo for a while, and today was the first day that we really moved forward.
 
For everyone who did register to be a donor, thank you for doing that. Hopefully, we've found our donor at this point, but there are many more out there who need help. We're going to continue to promote the marrow donor process and helping to get more people registered. Anna wanted to personally thank everyone who has registered, everyone who follows the blog, everyone who supports us, and thank God.