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Last Friday Megan called to inform me that there was a package from the University of Chicago hospitals waiting for me at home.  I have been selected to start the process.  There was quite a bit of reading material, which I made it through quickly.  It did not teach me anything, really, other than if you change your mind at the last minute they will tell the patient that medical complications arose that make you an incompatible donor...they will not tell a patient that you backed out.  I guess that makes some sense, dashing the hopes of an ill person probably doesn't help anything but I think I would want them to be honest with me if someone wanted to back out.  Most everything else I had read before, I've done so much research in the last few years I think I grasp the whole subject fairly well.

My blood draw has to be on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday and since mine are full for right now I will get blood drawn in a few weeks, more than likely week after next.  I am excited/dreading it.  I would love to be a  match, am hoping that I will be and dreading being told that I am a sucky match and to move on.  I think I always have the ability to do a paired exchange, that is something I will have to roll around the brain when the time comes.

Fingers crossed, I would love to be her match since she's a hard subject.