T-minus 4 days

On a more serious note.

I started the filgrastim shots today. I will get two shots a day until the apheresis stem cell collection on Monday. Feeling okay so far, just a little fatigued.

The patient (somewhere in the world) has started her intensive chemotherapy to wipe out her own bone marrow to be ready for the stem cell transplant next week. No turning back now.

I often wonder about the patient: What has she been through thus far in her battle with Leukemia? Where in the world is she? Did I match with her because we are the same ethnicity? How's her family handling all this? What is her chance for success?

This has me thinking a lot of my dad and everything he went through, and the anonymous donor that went through this same thing for my dad.