Just a Quick Update!

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 1^st, 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!!