Donor contact

On November 6, two years will have gone by since the big transplant from an unknown donor.  That's the mark when I will be allowed to contact the donor and ask if he would like to share information.  I'm already looking forward to knowing something about him.  At the time, I was only told that my donor was a twenty-four year old male from Europe.  Now, he would be a twenty-six year old male from Europe but that's not much to go on.  Since his stem cells were injected into my body, growing new bone marrow and therefore new blood, it's hard to deny that we have a connection.  Hopefully he will be as curious as I am.

I don't expect to become best friends and I may never meet him.  I just want to say thanks and promise to make his painful stem cell extraction worth while by doing two things; surviving and doing something good in the world.