five...

Five months ago Wyatt gave Camryn his bone marrow...

Amazing.
Crazy.
Hard.
Blessed.
Impossible.
Tear-filled.
Hopeful.
Thankful.
Forgettable.
Memorable.

The list really could go on and on forever the range of emotions that can be found on any given day throughout these past five months. Sometimes I cannot wrap my mind around all that has happened in the past five months and yet time seems to just stand still as well.

Five months ago we really, honestly did not know where transplant would take Camryn...our family. We were told to expect a much harder road and in ways it has been much harder and in ways it has been exactly the same. And yet five months is a significant amount of time to watch Camryn's marrow begin again...

The first time around maybe we were naive, no we were. We had no idea of what all this really meant...and now we do. Five months and doing well...five months and no fevers! Five months and some GVH mixed with high, strong numbers. Five months of taking each day as it comes...

There are fabulous days, good days, blah days and really hard days...but thankfully throughout each day there is a little survivor and a little donor who five months ago fought hard again...

Praying that the outcome of this transplant far outweighs the first one...praying that Wyatt's marrow and Camryn's GVH just wreck havoc on any and all leukemia cells that might rear there ugly head. Someone asked me "When are you out of the woods? When can you stop worrying about leukemia?" The answer quite simply is we are never out of the woods, in fact we live in the woods so to speak and leukemia, cancer will always be an ugly word...

But, for the past five months we lived without it...and my hope of all hopes is that Camryn never has to live with it again!

Grateful for five...hopeful for many, many more.