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wow a month has gone by since my transplant it feels like just yesterday I was in an immobilized state in the hospital with all kinds of of bags of medications and blood products flowing into the 2 tubes hanging from my chest. a lot has gone on since my last post day +14 when I was discharged from the stem cell unit. I started eating again after loosing a total of 35 pound in 3 weeks. I started to walk again still baby steps as the fatigue is always there and for every 5 steps forward there are 4 back. Im sleeping less but still need a daily nap to get through the day and skipping a meal is out of the question as its my fuel to get me by. I have seen my hematologist a number of times and the reports that have come back have all been positive my blood counts are slowly climbing and returning to normal, they are not perfect yet but they are slowly improving. I have started to see various side effects from the high dose chemo or the transplant we are not sure which one is causing it but for example as you can see in the photo the skin on my hands is coming off, as if I were molting or loosing my skin like a snake or a butterfly. My hickman line came out but of course not with out some amount of drama, after I got home from the surgical proceedure I started to bleed and had to turn around and go back to the hospital to get the bleeding stopped and have a better pressure dressing put on. I have what I think will be the last weekly visit to my heamtologist for a little while this friday
if all is well I wont see him until september when I will have my 3 month ct scan post transplant. This scan will tell us more if the transplant worked or not and at that point depending on the results we will have to make some choices depending if further treatment is needed or not. for now I have 3 months away from the hematology clinic to recover as much as I can (Im told it will take about 2 years until I feel like myself again) and to get my head back on strait after this ordeal.


































































