5 minutes ago I received a call from the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at queen Mary Hospital. The lady there started off by letting me know that the time has come to pony up.  They have received the first bill for the official activation of the search at the US donor registry and I need to send them some money.  
 
It wasn't till the second part of the conversation that I found out the QMH has received the first blood sample, done their high definition test and are happy that the match is close enough to go ahead. They faxed their results to the USA, are waiting to see if they will accept HK results or if they insist on doing their own tests before giving the go ahead.
 
Translated that means I HAVE A DONOR and they were waiting to tell me about it!!!   Another obstacle on my path to a long and healthy life bites the dust!!!  Another worried voice in the back of my head has a sock stuffed in it's mouth!
 
To put this in perspective: In December I found out that I had 8 potential donors on the world wide bone marrow donor registries. Soon after that the Europeans (one Swede, one French) fell off the list.  Then the number of US potentials changed from 6 to 4, and in one conversation a nurse in passing referred to my "3 USA matches".  For privacy reasons no one will tell me exactly why they've crossed the others off the list, but whatever the, cause 5 of my eight potential lifesavers were xxxx'ed out. So for the past few months my list has been slowly shrinking and in the back of my head has been the worry that that the remaining 3 or 4 might fall by the wayside as well.  
 
OK End of post. I can't stop smiling, and I'm off to have a shower where I shall sing loudly, out of tune, and who cares what the neighbours think!