Well good morning all!

It is a very good morning. We met with Dr. Champlin the transplant Dr. yesterday afternoon. we have a date. October 26 is the day of transplant! woohoo!  we are very excited and a little scared but it is great to have a date and moving forward. The transplant team is very excited I have Three donors from the national registry that are 10 out of 10 matches. because they had the luxury of Three donors they checked another two markers and one matched on both of those so they went a little further and checked two more markers and they matched on one of those. So what we know right know is that my donor is a 49 year old female that matches on 13 out of 14 markers which is really great! She is blood type O- so my blood type will change from O+ to O- which is crazy. That is all we know of the donor now we do not know where she is or any personal info. 

Ok so a little about the process, I will be admitted 7 to 9 days before transplant for a final and scary round of chemo. the chemo will destroy all of my bone marrow to make way for the new cells. It will be a stem cell transplant so as for the actual transplant it will be like a blood transfusion. The cells are taken from the donor and the next day I will get them. Between now and the week before transplant I will have lots to do. I have to see a dentist and eye doc. get an EKG, and echocardiogram to make sure my heart is good and strong. basically a whole work up to make sure I am  good for transplant. I will also have another bone marrow biopsy closer to the transplant to see how many blasts are still there. We will go with transplant even if I am not in remission. 

well that is a lot of info so sorry if you're not a nerd like me and this is just rambling! But if any one has a question or wants to know more let me know. We are so excited and this month is gonna fly by so again Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts and gifts and all the support we would be lost without our wonderful family and friends. May God Bless and Hope All have  great day!!

with all my Love,

                 Randi