The second 'harvest' of marrow from our 22 year old UK donor friend was successful on Tuesday morning (UK time) in providing sufficient cells for the transplant and Lucy is on a plane right now with the marrow. She arrives tommorrow morning (Thursday 31st July) into Sydney. They'll then screen out T cells from the donor's marrow through the day and whatever else they do and the transplant should go ahead tomorrow evening - Day Zero. Fingers et al all crossed!!!!
If you're between 18 & 40 and want to investigate how you might be able to help save a life, like our 22 year old UK Donor is doing for Lauren, look into it at www.abmdr.org.au ............hopefully it will never happen, but one day it could impact someone in your family, or future family and the more people on the registry, the greater the chance of a suitable match for you/your family member. To the younger people out there, please consider it. Fact - the current younger Aussie kids are the biggest group of people signing up for much needed blood donations demonstrating a higher level of social conscience - to their credit!!