Today's the day of the transplant, referred to here as Day 0, or my birthday. I am less anxious than I have been - the anticipation always is the hardest thing. I feel somewhat crummy - worsened sinuses and some nausea. The hospital has been outrageously noisy - construction and floor stripping and waxing. What an endurance test. I found out 2 1/2 weeks post transplant is the fastest I can get out, so I am hoping for that.
I will get an immune suppressant drug on days 1,3,6,11 that usually gives mouth sores, and the other immune suppressant I will be on for the next 6 months. From today on I am very vulnerable to infection, but I will be less so once the cells engraft and my white count comes back up.
Your prayers and well-wishes continue to buoy me up. I am seeing you all in my heart, looking forward to the day I can see you in person. A few good parties and trips could lie in my future.
Love,
Anne
5 comments:
Happy Birthday, new Anne, with new immune system, happily welcomed on board this auspicious day! Welcome new life, more parties, and lots of fun to come.
Love, Ellie
So great to hear from you Anne, the greatest trip I wish to hear about is your trip home!! Happy to hear you are looking forward...Keep up the wonderful work, knowing all is well
Love,
Sharesa
Dear Anne,
I've been wanting to write to you on the blog for the longest time as you are always on my mind.
Just want you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers and we are all rooting for you here on the east coast.
Keep up your courage and strength and I hope you float through this journey quickly and effortlessly.
With all my love,
Clare Webber-Perez and Family
Dearest Anne. As soon as I talk to you and get evidence that you still have your Buddha laugh, I'll know that all is well. My thoughts are with you and I look forward to seeing you again very soon. So, how is it being a Blood Type A? Pretty awesome, eh. Love Susan.
Anne,
You are not
a trouble guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents.
You were invited
from another and greater
night than the one
from which you have just emerged.
Now looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread its branches
against a future sky?
D. Whyte
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Wow, talk about being born again...
love russell
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