Seattle.....

Well, I am here. I actually flew into Seattle this morning around 930.  Spent a nice chill day with my brother and then had a nice dinner with B&B and their friends. :) Chicken Pot Pie. Where can you go wrong with that. :) Yummlicious.

So, it all begins tomorrow for real.  I have to be at the clinic at 11:15. I get to dive straight in with a full blown physical exam and an extensive meeting with my Docca. :)  I did find out some great news today.  I will be able to move into my apartment near the hospital this Friday evening.  That will be nice.  B&B are being so kind to let me crash their house and borrow their car and I'm sure they would have been very gracious in letting me stay as long as I needed, but I will take the apartment now.  It could have been possible to extend the date when I wanted to move in, but then I was taking a chance that due to the waiting list I wouldn't have been able to get in when I actually NEEDED it. :) I don't know if any of that makes any sense, but the long and short of it is.... I am moving into Pete Gross on Friday. At that point as well I will have a mailing address for all of you that were asking about that. :)

Anyhoooooo.... I am TOAST right at the moment, but I had promised SO many of you that I would write everyday.... here ya go.

Night.

I know I know, it's been forever....

They like to call that a cliff hanger..... no really, I'm sorry that it has been much longer than expected. I really DID have the intention of writing the day after my last post, but I just got so distracted... Ugh. :) You can probably imagine why. :/


So, here's the follow up that you have all harangued me about. :)


Yes, there were THREE perfect match donors found on the first go-round. Amazing. They told me that was quite rare that so many were found on the first try. My sister's reaction was that I should be excited to meet my "real family" Rude. :) But hey, as previously decided, I must be adopted so maybe.....  :)


Now, since we have matches we can go forward and again as previously stated, I am checking in at the SCCA Clinic on June 1st. Whoa Nelly! :) So, the plan is thus.......
I am working through the end of next week. Sadness. I will definitely miss my co-workers and my job, but alas, what's needs to be done, shall be done eh? No worries though, I'm so coming back to my fantastic place of employment. My fingers are crossed that will happen late late this year or January. Of course I will be coming back at first part-time, but hey. I think by December I will be so bored stiff that I won't know what to do with myself and working part time will sound like going to Disneyland. :)

So, work for another week. Then Memorial Day Weekend, hang with the family camping, chill with my animals (how I heart them). Then I fly out on the 31st!!! Eek!! So crazy soon! :) I'm still reeling a bit from the quickity (is that a word? Is now).

The first two weeks of my "experience" I will be chillin' by myself and going to the clinic everyday to have EVERY exam known to humankind. Seriously, any exam that is an anagram, yep, I get to do it. fun times. :) Two weeks of poking and prodding including another bone marrow biopsy.. I mean really, could there be anything more fun? I submit that there is not! :)  Just in case you couldn't tell, there was a little sarcasm in that last sentence. :)

After those two weeks of joy, my madre will show up and we will jump headfirst into uber cool stuff. Getting a Hickman central line so I can be the Vampire version of a Camelback Backpack, 4 days of pill version outpatient crazy chemo, then get admitted to the hospital to finish off my chemo with a drip. :) Woot. Then within a couple days of me finishing off my chemo, I will officially get my transplant and a longer life with it. yay for lengthy lives. My actual transplant is scheduled for June 24th, but that is possible to change a bit depending on the donor's situation. It will only move by a couple days, but it could change. My father is planning on flying up for the actual transplant. That will be nice for my momsy to have someone to be with for a couple days. Take her mind off of me.

Then from there, the general plan is to be in the hospital for a couple weeks. Then they will release me into my mammy's care and we will hang out in Seattle for another couple months. The timeline right now is that they will let me come back to Boise somewhere near the beginning of November. That seems so long from now. Wow. Vacation!

So, that is it for now. All I got. Still don't know exactly how I'm processing this and feeling about it. I CAN say though that I am ready. Yep. Let's get this thing done and move on already right? :) I'm sure you are all as tired as I am hearing about this. :)

So, thank you all again for all of your help and love and support and love and and and and ....... You are all so good to me and I feel very undeserving of such wonderful friends and family. :)  If you have any questions, I probably have SOME answers. You are more than welcome to comment on here or just email me. I would love to answer any questions that I can. Loves and Hugs.

The news we've been waiting for.....eeeeeeeeek

Well, here it is... the day I found out when I need to be in Seattle. It's official. I need to check-in to the SCCA Clinic on June 1st. Yup.... only three weeks from today. Crazy fast! It's a strange sensation to go from the hurry-up-and-wait stage to BAM! let's get this thing done. I'm not sure what to say. I think that I will ruminate on this and then write more tomorrow. yes? yes.