Dry Run

So today is what feels like a dry run.... Quick overnight trip to Washington D.C. for my physical exam, EKG and chest X-Ray, then immediately back home. I'll be taking the same flight in just 11 more days for the donation. I travel alone today, but the next trip Stephanie will be joining me. It's really starting to get exciting now, thinking of the whole process coming up. I'm hoping that the patient that I'm helping is doing well and prepared for what is to come in the next few days. They will begin the process of intensive chemotherapy and radiation to completely kill all bone marrow leaving them with no immune system at all. For some strange reason, at this stage of the donation, the quote from Star Wars keeps going through my head, "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope". I am literally the last person on Earth that can save them, and I'm so happy to be the one that can do it. I feel no pressure or obligation to do this, just the inner peace of knowing that I'm doing the right thing.

I've booked an early flight today so that I can spend the day sight-seeing, then the exam will be tomorrow morning.