Well, I'm sitting in the hospital cafeteria right now..... I just finished my big round of tests this morning to check everything and I guess the doctors have determined that I wouldn't be a good match for a direct bone marrow harvest and they are recommending that I do a PBSC donation instead... I guess they wanted the maximum possible amount of bone marrow and that can entail 8-9 access sites with up to 300 bone taps to retrieve that much bone marrow, and with my weight it makes it more difficult to access the pelvic bone so they have recommended that I do the PBSC instead. So, now they have to contact the patients doctor and transplant team to see if stem cells work for them and if they do then we can move forward, but if not I guess they are going to have to find a different donor.
I guess its pretty rare for them to want a different donor, but its still a possibility. It kind of hurts being told I'm too overweight to help out in the way they wanted... I've never been a skinny guy, but I know that in the past few years my weight has gotten quite out of hand... it hasn't seriously effected my lifestyle or anything like that yet, but today is one of the first times I've really felt limited in what I can do because of my weight. Its pretty disappointing to me that I let it get this out of hand and I definitely think its time to get back on track!!!
I'm not really sure how I am going to go about doing this but its definitely time to start... I don't want to ever be told I can't do something because of my size ever again!!! Unless, of course, its the kiddy ride at lagoon :)
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