Today marks Ryan's hundredth day anniversary since his bone marrow transplant. One hundred days of new life.
Today we are feeling especially grateful for Ryan & his amazing strength & resilency, his generous bone marrow donor, and all our family and friends that so lovingly helped us get through an incredibly difficult time in our lives. It is such a special day today. Every day has become a special & precious day for us, but today is even more so.
As Jason so succintly put it, there are only 265 more days before we are given the chance to meet Ryan's hero (his Bone Marrow Donor).
Ry has an appointment at COH today and hopefully we will get the official thumbs up to allow him to go out in public without a mask, eat at ("reputable") restaurants, perhaps even visit Disneyland with him?
I just want to add, that if you are not registered with the National Bone Marrow Registry as a donor, please consider doing it! You could save someone's LIFE, just like Ryan's donor saved Ryan's life. Jason and I are both on the registry and have been on it for the past 4 years. We registered before we ever knew that Ryan would ever need a transplant. We saw Ryan undergo countless bone marrow biopsies and lumbar punctures since he was only 22 months old and strongly felt that if he was strong enough to handle that, then we are definitely strong (and healthy) enough to be able to donate marrow (AKA "LIFE") to someone in need. If we are ever found to be a match, it would be a great honor and priviledge for us to be able to help someone have a second chance in life, just like the chance that Ryan has been given. ...So please, please go out and register if you haven't already. You can do so for free at City of Hope or at our annual LAFD/LAPD St. Baldrick's event on March 12. ...And if you have any questions about it, please send me an email. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks for stopping by.
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