Unexpected Hospital Run

I hope you had a good Christmas. We had our first Christmas in Seattle, and it was great. Let me share one of our special memories of this Christmas.

We received a phone call from the hospital on 12/23. Jason was excited and saying "I didn't know we could do that", "I'll pick it up tomorrow" etc... I was wondering what was going on. He had blood drawn earlier on that day, and his blood levels had been unstable for the last week, so I was hoping nothing serious was going on. But he sounded happy and excited...

After the short phone conversation, Jason told me "they have a card from the donor!". What a great surprise right before Christmas! It was 4:15 pm, the clinic office was closing at 5pm. We looked at each other for a few minutes... "Can we make it?... Let's go!". It usually takes 30 minutes to get there if there is no traffic (you never know how it is). We packed up boys in the car, left the house 4:30, and got there 4:58! Jason ran up to the 6th floor (of course used an elevator) while we waited in the car, and came back with the card!

We opened the card in the car. The front of the card said "Wishing you well" - nice get well card.

Inside, the printed words said:
Hope today finds you feeling better than yesterday, and that you'll feel stronger with each new tomorrow.

And here is what he wrote:
Hello,
I have been thinking about how you are doing and wish you a speedy recovery. I am grateful to have had this opportunity to donate for you.
Take care/get well.
Your Donor

How lucky we are to have such a wonderful donor. Not only he donated his bone marrow, but also he cares about Jason.

We were told that we could not contact the donor until 1 year after the transplant. He did not put his name or contact info. There were only the donor and Jason's ID numbers on the envelope. What we didn't know was we could communicate each other anonymously. We are excited to write him back.

I hope someday we will be able to tell him thank face to face (maybe with a big hug).

Love,
Mayumi

P.S.
Quick updates on Jason:
Today is Day 80, and he is schedule to have bone marrow biopsy tomorrow. Like I mentioned before, his blood levels went down, but came back a little. He's been having blood drawn 3 times last week to keep close eyes on the levels. His feet have been swollen a lot since he started high blood pressure medicine a couple weeks ago. His blood pressure went higher because of steroid- which he has been off for a few weeks.
But over all, he is feeling good. His little whiskers and hair are trying to grow back here and there.