Matches Found!

2000 feet above Tucson in the Catalinas

We have a match!  That's right, your face and my butt.  Hahahaha, I haven't used that one for years.  Still funny, though, isn't it? 

They actually found several matches in the registry.  Thank you to everyone of you who registered or tried to register or talked someone else into registering or thought about it but drank beer instead or read this blog and became inspired anyway.  According to the letter from SCCA, they found multiple donors who are 9/10 match.  Perfect would be 10 out of 10, and of course they recognize that Heidi deserves nothing but a perfect 10.  I told them, though, that Heidi has no match since Cleopatra died.  But still, they want to continue searching anyway. 

We don't know know how long they'll keep searching before settling.  In the meantime we are in limbo waiting for marching orders.  "Hurry up and wait" is supposedly a slogan in the military.  Maybe the medical community is adapting that philosophy. 

In the mean-meantime, we might as well have a party.  This won't be as big a celebration as the post-treatment looking-forward party.  But it's a party nonetheless.  January 15 for those of you who haven't heard.  Homebrew, home lemon-drops, home s'mores.  At our home-home.

On the registry front, we have several more contestants.  Alex and Cody both signed up.  It's safe for them, of course, because they'll never be matched.  She's 1/4 Armenian and he's 1/2 Moses Lake.  Who would match either of them?  Nikki also revealed that she registered months ago.  Again, safe.  She is 1/4-Armenian and part Orange County.  Can't be many of them anywhere.  Perhaps I'm making too much of ethnic background.  Perhaps it's not my 1/2 armenian heritage that prevented me from being selected the past 15 years.  Perhaps it's true I have had no match ever since Superman retired.   Oh, boy, can't use that joke too many times.  Karen and Jami also registered.  And Megan too.  Who could forget Megan?  I didn't. Way to go, ladies!  And I was kidding about me not having a match anywhere in the world.  Ya see, back in the 70's they built this pipeline in Alaska . . .

Running on a brisk Arizona morning