February 14, 2013

FIVE DAYS AND FOURTEEN HOURS TO GO

Yeah.  I’m counting. 

My sister donor just left the house.  Yesterday she cranked out 6.4 million little stem cells.  I’ll get about 4 million of those and the rest will be frozen.  If all goes well the little suckers will stay frozen until I die of old age at our mansion in Costa Rica.  I learned over the last week and a half that my sister is afraid of needles.  I never knew that.  In spite of that over the course of four days she took several shots in the stomach and then lay in bed for about five hours giving blood through a needle large enough that it didn’t damage the cells.  How do you thank somebody for something like that?

While I’m thinking about it I want to thank everyone who is thinking about me and praying for me.  I am not a religious person but I cherish every prayer and good vibration sent up by any of you out there.  Most of you will never read these words but I can say with great conviction that knowing that you are out there thinking and caring about me does help.  They were a large part of helping me get through the down days during my infection/abscess/surgery/recovery last year. 

So I thank my sister, thank you, thank God, thank KA,  thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster, thank Pauline, thank Leukka, thank EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING.  I’ll take all the help I can get.

So please keep those prayers, thoughts, cards, letters, vibes, emails, posts, likes and comments coming.

Boone