Just wanted to apologize that it took me so long to write this part. I also wanna thank WebMD for helping me get accurate info about this stuff on cancers.
It's been 3 years since I started writing in this book. Journal. Diary. Call it what u want, but I've been writing in it for 3 years. Ever since Jamie went back into the hospital what feels like all those years ago. It's just hard to believe that it's been 3 years. After all of that stuff got sorted out, I went to college. I'm about to start my last year, and I'm getting really scared. I'm excited and nervous to be done with my college days. I think I'm going to be a doctor. I'm not sure what kind yet, but I know that I want to help people and make their lives easier in any way.
After how that doctor treated Jamie and all of us that were there, I know that is something I could see me doing, so I started taking courses that u need for pre-med. I love them. I passed all, ok most of them with high marks. And I'm excited to finish up and start applying to medical school. But I can wait to do that stuff till later on in the year.
I know that u'r probably dying to hear about what happened to Jamie. Although I already wrote about that stuff when it was happening, I wrote about feelings. Now I'm gonna tell u what happened from facts, not opinions.
After all that time that seemed like months, but was actually only a couple of weeks, Jamie found a match. There was this girl from New York City, that as a part of a school project got tested. See she was researching about different diseases for health class in high school. She was focusing on cancers and decided to put her main focus onto Sickle Cell Disease. She was looking up some stuff about how blood transfusions can treat complications of sickle cell disease and can prevent others. She found out that bone marrow transplants are an experimental treatment for the disease. They require a suitable donor and have a very high degree of risk. Then she read that 1 in 10 people don't survive a bone marrow transplant. However bone marrow transplants are very rarely used to treat sickle cell disease because there is a high risk of complications, the experimental nature of the procedure, and the thing that Jamie and I were having trouble with, the low availability of matched bone marrow donors. After reading about how there are few available of matched donors, she decided to talk to her parents about being tested and seeing if she could help someone get better.
After a long thought out process her parents agreed to allow her to be tested. And of course, she had looked into what other types of diseases bone marrow transplants could help. She was able to slide it into her project about what it would be like to do this. She was just looking up information for a health project, and she ended up saving Jamie's life. O yea her name was Jillian. She was a sophomore in high school, but if u ask me. I would tell u that she was one of the bravest people in the world. Not only was she willing to help someone, it isn't exactly painless to be put through a transplant. She was doing this without even needing to. She was doing it of her own free will. Ok I know I said that I would do this from fact, but I just had to emphasize my point at how amazing this girl was.
Needless to say, Jamie and I are still happily married. We don't expect any children in our lives anytime soon, due to the fact that we are both in college. Yes, Jamie ended up going to college. After the treatment was over she waited until the halfway mark in the school year came before she started, giving herself plenty of time to recover before starting school. I am so proud of her and all that she has done. I wish there was more to say about our future, but for now I'm happy to say that we are bother currently healthy. Although I don't know if Jamie will last 5 more years, or 50 or just a couple of months. I can easily say that we are thoroughly enjoying our time together, and her starting college was also us preparing for a full life together. It was us saying that she isn't going for a very long time to come. And that we can handle whatever comes our way. Together.