Match Game

The kit has finally arrived! After two weeks of working through the administrative aspects of Mom's upcoming transplant, we have made a little progress. :-)

The kit is what Aunt Jean will take to the doctor's office in order to collect and FedEx her samples back to the Baylor lab. They tell us it will take approximately two days to determine if she is a match.

However, the more important question is - a match to what? During one of Mom's phone conversations this week, a lady happened to ask if we had the results of the same test for Mom. We don't know that we do. Whatever bone marrow type Jean is will be nice to know, but what we really need to know if it matches Mom!

We will share more when we know more. In the meantime, wish us luck while playing this match game. We are fortunate to have the best health care system in the world available to us, but unfortuantely there are some kinks in the system and numerous hoops to jump through. :-)

Mom is doing well these days - enjoying a break between treatments and a smaller pile of pills to take each day. She has also recovered nicely from last month's lawning mowing incident thanks to two rounds of antibiotics and a rigorous neighborhood watch program. :-)

Thank you to everyone for your kind offers to help Mom and Dad in any way needed. We could not ask for more considerate and generous friends.

Happy Derby Day
Mica