Morgan Donato’s Blog

We’re here…and exhausted!  Morgan was a trooper on the flight over with very little drama.  The Mayfair Hotel is so quaint, and Morgan has already taken two very luxurious baths!!  She uses her two mastered words of Bonjour and Merci everyday!
We are sweating our tails off over here, as the weather is quite warm.  We [...]

So, we were back at the pool this year for Morgan’s actual birthday!  Such a great sunny day.  We followed up the day with a movie and sleepover for some of the girls…who stayed up till 2am this morning!!!!  What a difference a year makes.  Morgan is doing great…I think her wish while blowing out [...]

Today was Morgan’s one year anniversary for her Bone Marrow transplant.  Thanks to all of our family, and friends who stood by us and provided tremendous help and support in a time of great need, and a very special thanks to the anonymous donor who saved Morgan’s life.  I can only hope that I can [...]

Morgan’s Aquarium Adventure
Click on “Morgan’s Aquarium Adventure” above to see her video
Today was a great day for Morgan!  Her long awaited trip back to Adventure Aquarium.  She has wanted to go back for some time now, and has been able to, but she didn’t want to go back until she was able to pet the [...]

I do!  I upload pictures all the time with Morgan, so I forget to update the blog because I update Facebook!  So enough of my ranting.  Morgan is doing GREAT!  She still has some of her gut GVHD, but not as often.  As the weather gets better (although the last few days have been SOGGY), [...]

Well the Auto show is in town and the Dad’s have been pretty busy.  For that matter so are the Mom’s!  As it worked out, it turned into Dad’s and Daughter’s day at work, go figure!  So what do the smart Dad’s do, we put them to work!  Morgan and Jenna became bored with us, [...]

The doctors called, and GREAT news, we are still 100% donor bone marrow.  Morgan is still in remission.  We have only one obstacle that we are concentrating on, and that is Morgan’s immune system.  Her numbers there seem to be down, SOooo, we will be going into the day hospital once a month for some [...]

Morgan has decided that it is time for her to make her own posts.  However she is in the dictation mode and not full blown writer mode yet.
Morgan has been making great progress in the last few months, and the weaning process seems to be winding down.  She is down to two pills a day.  [...]

Just finished with our clinic appointment, and Morgan has been moved to one visit every 3 weeks!  Yeah!  Her skin is healing well, just some small rough patches, and her scalp is a little dry with some GVHD, but all together looks great.  Her gut GVHD is slowly recovering as well.
I asked how she was [...]

Morgan really seems to be doing well!  We were supposed to go to clinic last week, but they called and moved us to this week, so 3 weeks since our last check-up.  This is great news, if they were concerned, we would be there weekly.  The doctors mentioned last check-up that Morgan was pacing so [...]