2 Year Anniversary

Two years ago , today

On Feb 11. 2021, Lucas Patrick Gourley received a donation from his precious sister Dylan. His big brother, Jack had just visited in Philadelphia for Christmas and had to be in Austin during the transplant. He was admitted 10 days before, they called it T-10. He had cranial, total body radiation and a protocol of preparatory chemotherapy that totally removed his immune system. Dylan was a 14 out of 14 match. She had her cells harvested from Dr. Freedman at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia while Lucas waited in his room, the special section for bone marrow transplants.

This picture, below was taken after she came out of General Anesthesia. The doctors had to run a lot of heart tests on Dylan to make sure she could be sedated to donate the marrow. There were times that it was not 100% that she could do it so had to carry a Holter System around to monitor her heart and have it analyzed by the top doctors in the world.

Lucas also had the top doctors in the world. A whole team of them. A whole team we will be eternally grateful for. But most of all, Lucas had prayer, he had God in the room with him on that day. That day, when they brought in Dylans cells, while Jack was at home 1800 miles away with his grandparents, Dylan bravely donated her cells to her big bro. The middle child. The bringer of light. Lucas.

Lucas always and forever needs your prayers. He needs our prayers and this was sent out to day to bring light and hope and some joy and some more prayers for his continued healing, health. Thank you so much God, sweet Jesus, we are children of God and we prayed, collectively for Lucas.

The pics below encapsulate the present. The black and white is him climbing up a wall, looking for the next point, the next challenge, the determination in his eye we have seen so many times. The picture of him and Jack is after a WAYA game last week when he made the game winning 3 pointer. HIs brother, Jack was so proud of him, they really pull hard for eachother. The panoramic was on a trip to Enchanted Rock where Lucas was the first one to the top.

Thank you God, thank you Jesus, thank you prayer warriors. Please let Lucas 2 year tests, all the things that are continually on the radar for him be clear, clean and no cancer, now and forever more. We pray for Lucas today, we pray for his brother and sister and his family.

Amen