ARIA’S POV
The human body is fragile thing, yet witnessing the mechanics of a bone marrow transplant makes you realize how resilient we can be.
The bone marrow transplant went smoother than I dared to hope.
It wasn't the open-chest surgery I had terrifyingly pictured in my mind even though I have been told several times it isn't, my mind seems to just have it own interpretation.
Noah, as the donor, went through a few days of injections to boost his stem cell production.
He told me it felt like having the flu aches, fatigue but he powered through it like it was nothing.
On the day of collection, he sat through apheresis while they filtered his blood to gather the stem cells.
He was awake the whole time, a little uncomfortable but mostly bored, according to him.
My baby, on the ot
