10/10

The phone call we've been waiting for for 8 weeks finally came this afternoon..

Emerson was matched with a 10/10 donor!!!

This means that all 10 of the 10 proteins they need to match were perfect for him increasing our odds of a successful transplant. There is still a chance of things going wrong and the transplant not taking but the odds are much less.

We have a meeting with our bone marrow transplant team next Tuesday. During this meeting they will go through the process and explain which chemo drugs they will use, side effects, and what we should expect going forward. Basically they will answer everything we have been wondering, worrying, and googling answers to.. They will also give us a specific date timeline. During the call today she assured me that she thinks we will be admitted within the next few weeks to undergo chemo. This is much quicker then we were expecting because our last conversation with our Immunologist we thought it would still be 4-6 weeks once we found out.

After receiving the call I broke down.. I thought I would feel an enormous weight lift off my shoulders but I didn't, I almost feel worse. I was so happy and so sad at the same time... I am so thankful we were able to find such a perfect match but with this came the reality of what we have been preparing for. Our hardest part of our journey is in the near future. Emerson has the battle of his life ahead of him. I know he is ready for it. He is a fighter and the strongest person I know. He is my inspiration everyday and I know he will make it through this next course and overcome it like a champ. Its even harder now to try and prepare ourselves for this because Emerson has been so healthy. He is getting stronger everyday and acting like a one year old. Its easy to forget that there is still something so wrong with him when he doesn't act like there is and you can't see it. I don't want to put him through any more pain.. I don't want him to have to go through this. I wish there was a way I could do it for him. I know that this is something we need to do to make him better but it doesn't make it any easier and it will not take his pain away. I pray that he does not get all of the nasty side effects that go along with chemo and that he recovers quickly so we can go back home.

I cannot wait for the day that this all feels like a bad dream..

Thank you to everyone for your continued support and prayers.. We will need them now more then ever to get through the next chapter of our journey.

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