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09 December 2014

GREAT TRANSPLANT NEWS: After lots of emails and phone calls between hospitals and donation registries - we've got a 'green light' from my overseas bone marrow donor. We start chemo this Friday, 12th December. My donor's bone marrow/stem cells will be 'harvested' in his country between 15-16th December, whilst this is happening a Brisbane scientist will be dispatched on international flights on the same days.

He/she will go to the donor's hospital to pick up the cells and jump back on a plane to have them back at my hospital in Brisbane by 18th/19th December. The stem cells will be infused into my blood stream, via transfusion on Friday, 19th December. This will be my 2nd birthday, when I have been given a 2nd chance at life - by a man who is giving me the most precious gift I could ever ask for.

I want to hug this man and the scientist flying to another part of the world to save my life, but I can't find out anything about them until about 1 year after the transplant. I will be writing some anonymous thank you letters until then - so happy to get this finally underway.

Thank you for reading,
Much Love,
Jodie & The Guerrero Family xx