Hello Everyone,
No. We are not going out for a subway sandwich (I wish). Tomorrow is the day Ryan receives his bone marrow stem cell transplant. They have grown his cells for the last 10 days and he is supposed to receive somewhere between 80-120 million cells. The cells are slightly different than those from Umbilical cord, but they are an exact genetic match. As some may remember, we tried this last time, but Ryan got severely sick shortly after this treatment and lost the benefits of the entire trip. We are being neurotic about keeping him away from other people, cleaning all equipment and limiting physical contact with anyone but ourselves. This is isolating us from some of the other patients, somewhat, but we are here on a mission. We are also sad that the two families we have gotten along with best are leaving this week. We hope that Isabella and Clara see tremendous improvements from their time here. Tomorrow is also the Dragon Boat Festival here in China, however, they are keeping their schedule for Ryan and a few of the other patients. We are at the halfway point now, though the end seems so far away. It’s getting late and I’m off to bed. Take care. Dan, Suzanne and Ryan
Good luck tomorrow!! It sounds like things are going well on the trip and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it continues that way. I spoke to Sarah really briefly last week… she sounds like she is having a great time and keeping really busy. We’ll try to find a time to have her over to play next week.
Good luck tomorrow Ryan. we will be praying for you. Everyone is anxious for you to come home, especially Sarah. She was awesome at bowling today. Love you, Grandma and grandpa
Ryan,
good luck today. I will be anxiously waiting to hear how it goes afterwards for you. I hope and pray all goes as planned! Love, Mrs “Pip”