Ready, Set..Collect

Guest Commentary by Mike

Much to the chagrin of our dog Flower, the day began much earlier than expected.  With the alarm set to 4:30A, Jeanie and I do what every person does that's worried about sleeping through the alarm does..we woke up early..about an hour earlier than the alarm.  Flower continued to stare at us as if saying "Really..do I have to get up too?" in between massive dog yoga stretches as we grabbed our stuff and headed out the door to Boston for the day.  Fortunately, the "circus" that occurs every school morning will be directed by my Mom ( aka "Mimi" to those under her command ) and we have a great support network of friends in the afternoon managing the activity-filled Monday afternoon. 

We arrived to the blood donor center in the Jimmy Fund building around 6:45 and we were promptly delivered to our "space for the day" cramped in between others here for much the same reason, stem cell collection for later use.  Jeanie just had her blood draws and we are waiting for the go-ahead signal ( acceptable level stem cell counts ) to move forward with collection.  Keep your fingers crossed that the next blog will include a picture of Jeanie hooked up to the "Super-Duper-Stem-Cell-Collection-Thing-A-Majig".  In the meantime..take a look at the photo above, smile, and be thankful that we aren't blogging live from a proctologist's office.