May...

Its pretty obvious that I've been avoiding posting an update, because I'm tired of bad news. Of course I'm writing this while I'm sitting in the ER with a family member that we thought was doing great, who in reality has been keeping from the whole family that his cancer has resurfaced and we only now know because we just had to admit him to the ER.

I'm drained and sick and tired of hospitals and of not knowing if my loved ones will be with us for future adventures or not.

Regarding my daddy's situation, we still don't know what's happening either, last week we were told that the only donor in the international bone marrow registry that matched, isn't locatable. Aka she registered 12 years ago and has since passed or moved to multiple countries and they can't find her.

So we were basically back to no hope but I refused to believe that and two days after that news we were told that there is a method the doctor agreed to try of making me an artificial donor - in super simple terms - extracting some of my stem cells and deleting my mothers' DNA from my stem cells and creating an artificial match or some crazy science magic.

We're now waiting for the results from the lab tests on my DNA to see if that's possible. Another step in the waiting game.

I'm standing for me being a match and getting to save my daddy's life and subsequently taking care of him and getting to spend two or three months of my summer with the coolest dude alive!
My daddy is truly my best friend and my superhero and my cheerleader and the world would be a duller place without his jokes and stories and his incredible capacity to help others and his commitment to people's happiness. He's fucking amazing. And he's going to live long enough to become a grandpa one day and teach my future kids about jazz and blues and read Harry Potter to them and tell them about the time their mom whizzed around the neighborhood on a tricycle completely utterly naked - not much different from the rest of her life...