Hey Team Orange! This post
will be short and sweet. I have some pretty important and recent news to update
you on. As some, but not all, of you may know, Mason will be going to Johns
Hopkins in Maryland for anything that has to do with his bone marrow procedure.
In fact, we all had to get our blood drawn and sent down there for them to
attempt to find a match. Though we wanted to get everything done at CHOP for
various reasons, we found out today that everything will definitely be taking
place there. Mason may be being transferred down to Johns Hopkins, but it’s
such an amazing hospital with great staff and flat screen TVs, which Mason is
beyond excited for.
With that I will tell you
the next bit of news. We were waiting results of the match test, as you all
know. They called my mom earlier in the week to say that they had the types of
the three of us done. Woo! Except something was missing. The blood they were
supposed to match it to… No worries. They got it the next day, which was good.
Today, Mason, who hadn’t been feeling so well, called me into his room right as
I was leaving for work. When I walked in he told me that he had both good and
bad news. I knew exactly what he was going to say, but since I was expecting a
much more grand gesture in the revelation of this news, I didn’t think I was
right. He told me that Parker and I weren’t the ideal matches that the doctors
need for him. Morgan, however, is the perfect match, and none of us could ever
be happier to hear it.
On Tuesday, May 1st,
we will bring Mason to CHOP for his third and hopefully, his final round of
chemotherapy. The power of prayer is so strong, and I’ve never seen it work
like this before. I know that not only do we have all of you on Team Orange,
but we also have God on it too. We keep praying for things to work out as they
have been. We are lucky in every sense of the word. We’re beyond lucky; we are blessed.
Thank you so much for
everything, Team Orange. You guys really are the best, and though I do not feel
like I can ever sufficiently thank all of you, I can keep you in my prayers the
way you have done for my family and Mason. I pray that you are able to see that
you, too, are as blessed as we are. All it takes is the eyes to see it and
faith to believe it. I pray that you can have those eyes and that faith. I’m
changing the song to a previous one I had up because it can truly open eyes and
strengthen faith. It’s a very important song to me as I think it can be to all
of you. I encourage you to listen and even look up the lyrics. The song teaches
one of the best lessons I ever could have learned. Thank you so much again, and
go Team Orange!!