Day -5

It's Thursday already, I cannot believe it. Day -5

If today is thursday than that means tomorrow is Friday!

Brett's down for his last treatment for today and since tomorrow is Friday that means he only has 2 more radiation treatments!!!



He's doing great. It's almost like there's nothing going on. His counts have dropped only slightly so we questioned them today thinking they should be lower. The nurse reassured us that they will drop in time, not to worry! The drop in his white blood cells, and red blood cells and platelets are normal and all signs that the radiation and eventually the chemo, which he gets on Saturday is working to kill his bone marrow to make "room" for Tyler's cells.



Everyone knows that Tyler is his donor, right? Considered a great match! It was a battle for a while. Travis was a match first but Travis has a different blood type... so Tyler was tested. Tyler had the same number of "matches" as Travis. Unheard of right... how many people can say they have two almost perfect matches, not to mention in one family of only 5??? So the contest to see which brother wins continued with another blood test to dive a little deeper. 2nd blood testing came back that both brothers still had same number of matches again... however, Tyler has the same blood type so he wins!!

Everyone also knows that Tyler and his wife Alanna just had their first baby right? A week ago yesterday beautiful little Quinn Nora came into this CRAZY world!! We got to see her on Sunday and she is such a gift! Her timing was perfect for us... just what we needed before starting this- well, i guess we'll call it an adventure. I cannot tell you what holding her felt like, my heart filled and my soul felt renewed. Her peacefulness and obliviousness made me and I think Brett, forget about the stress and fear that has followed us for the past few months. She's a blessing in more ways than she'll ever know.

Back to Tyler... he starts his part of the "process" tomorrow. Unfortunately, he has to start giving himself shots 3 times a day for 4 days to boost all his cells. We pray this goes easily for him and the only issue he has is the inconvenience of finding time to do the shots inbetween diaper changes.

I guess that's it for today!
Thanks again for all the support....