Today was a good day. It may be because they changed the type of final day T-cell treatment or because Daniel had almost no T-cells left to get rid of but he had his treatment stretched out over 8 hours instead of two and he thankfully had no reaction. He had a great day. He watched a ridiculous movie with Nurse Amy (who makes everything fun) and did some homework, and ate a big lunch and then we laughed hysterically playing our Pictionary. Aside from being sore and achy and a few pesky side effects from some of the other nasty medicines we are on track for tomorrow. This is so weird, to think of what is happening. Rob drove me a bit crazy today worrying about whether or not the harvest from the donor went well. As much as I asked, there was no way to really know. What they did tell me was that if it didn’t go well, that THEN we would hear something. Well we didn’t hear anything. So no news is good news on that end I guess so all is a go and from our end as well, so one more sleep and we are on to a new day. And a big one it will be. But not really, actually. Believe it or not it is supposedly rather anticlimactic. For many of you that have asked it is not really a surgery. It is more of just a regular blood transfusion that Daniel will get. Probably around 11ish and it will last about 1.5 to 2 hours. It will just be like a bag, maybe 2 of really concentrated blood cells that will go into his already there Broviac lines so no needles, no going to sleep. Yes there will be more constant monitoring and the doctors will be here more to watch what is going on, but we should not expect to see anything dramatic. It is not likely to see any type of instant anything really. At least we hope not. It is all really crazy to think about. Once those cells are there, they just find their way to where they need to go and start to take over and multiply. That is called engraftment. We will wait a long while for this to happen over the coming weeks and hopefully with no Graft Versus Host Disease. This is our main objective to avoid. I am not going to think about this tonight. Tonight I am going to sleep (hopefully) knowing that tomorrow will be a new birthday of sorts for Daniel and his chance for a cure to his leukemia. Are we ready? As ready as we are ever going to be. The doctors say we are ready. I know I can’t wait any longer to get this process going, because I don’t want to wait one more minute to get our lives back to our new normal. Daniel…well nothing seems to phase him. He is a pillar of strength in all our hearts. I don’t think he is hesitant about any of this because he knows this is what he needs to do. In his eyes he has things to do in his life and this is keeping him from getting them done, so let’s get the show on the road, so to speak. He is a teenager with a young outlook. I wish I could look at it that way. Hmmm. Maybe I should. I guess I should just listen to him more often. Yah, I’m ready and I am with you Daniel, all the way. Tomorrow really is a new day!