Day +1

Ryan's transplant took place at around 9pm last night, everything went according to plan and lasted about an hour. In the next few days I will post the photos from yesterday. This is just a page turned in this chapter of our lives, we will be having a rough few weeks coming up before we will see the light at the end of the tunnel. Everyday the doctors / nurses / medical techs / nutritionists come in and comment on how great he is doing. He has still be eating much more than they were expecting him to and is so content to play in the exersaucer or to dance around the room in my arms. So far he has only had one difficult day which was brought on by the ATG and was expected to go down the way it did. According to everyone we have encountered we will be entering a couple of really tough weeks coming up which will be his body responding to the chemo. We will know when things are looking up once his blood counts begin to rise then they will do another bone marrow aspiration to see what percent of Ryan's marrow is the donor's cells. We have had a lot of people asking us for the information about the donor and all we have for information is that he is a 24 year old male from the US. With the National Marrow Donor Program we will have to wait one year (if the donor even wants to be known) before we can find out any more information. This is in place to protect both sides of the transaction, unfortunately some people are a little crazier than the rest of us and may use the information for less than positive reasons. I am just hoping that after the year that we will be able to meet this wonderful young man and our thoughts are with him while he recovers from his donation. It is amazing how selfless and generous it is to give your marrow to someone who you have never even met and save their life. In case one day you are reading this I cannot thank you enough for saving our sweet baby's life and giving him the chance to become the phenomenal person I know he is meant to be.