Leaving Soon...

Sorry for the gaps in updates, there really has not been much more to update until now. We have just been doing our regular routine, daily nurse comes in, hospital every other day for blood transfusions and slow updates on when the donor is ready. We are leaving soon we found out sometime between 8/17/09-8/24/09. Right before school or the first day of school for the kids is when we will be leaving. They are working with the donor now to firm up his schedule.

That is only 1 to 2 weeks away, I can't believe it. Here we go the long process of finding Eric's donor and getting him ready. I still find myself in awe of the selfless act of love this donor has to do this for someone he doesn't even know, never met yet. How amazing it is that people in the world have such big hearts and courage and how much he has no idea what this means to us. What Christ like love, unconditional love.It's hard to know that we will be gone for the kids first day of school, we have never missed those days, those moments in our kid’s life.

We have always been there, I know they are not little but it still was a big deal to us to be there for them. I remember when Eric was in the hospital with his first cancer Aplastic Anemia, he was not suppose to come home yet but we begged and pushed the doctors the night before school started, we wanted them to have him home for them when they went to first grade for Austin and third grade for Chelsea. We came home at 1:30am in the morning the day of their first day of school just so we were there.

We are happy that his donor is found and the road we need to travel is moving forward but as with any serious step and move in your life we are a little nervous, scared and not exactly looking forward to the road but know it's our journey we need to take, our next step towards hopefully "back to our normal life". Believe it or not we would do anything to get those days back, the running kids around, homework, clean the house, working, and the life we used to have!