Day 23 - It's fun to be me

I forgot to write yesterday, I guess that's how good I'm doing. We went to the pool since I can't stand staying in the house. Tomorrow I will go to the doctor again but in Fort Collins. Hopefully my counts will be higher. If you want to guess what my white blood count will be tomorrow or my platelets make a comment. I think I will guess my wbc will be 2.1 and my platelets will be 174. It's funny since my family has guessing games like this for what the new baby will look like.

My eyelashes are down to about 10 lashes an eye. The hair on my head seemed like it was starting to grow but that new growth went away. So it will probably be another 2 weeks until I get some growth again.

Day 22 - Why feel blue?

Day 21 - almost done

..well kinda. We're waiting in the little room again this morning for Dr. McSweeny. We will find out soon what my CBC is and see if my white blood cell count is over 3.5, which is the minimal of the normal range.

Not there yet. Actually my white blood cell count dropped to 1.8. Dr. McSweeny said that it will drop down because my platelets are being made and I am not getting the shots that produces more white blood cells. So it might be 3 or 4 more weeks before my count comes back up to the normal range. It will be a year before it all goes back to my normal.

Day 20 - Blessings are plenty

Derek and my mom are at church right now with the kids. I actually got to put a barrette in Lizzie's hair. It hard to know that I can't go with them. It's been 3 weeks already since I've been able to go. The young men in our ward are going to bring the sacrament to me after church. I've always wondered what happens when they bring sacrament to the sick, I guess it's neat to find out.

So to go along with my mantra we've had many blessings through out this year. Many of our blessings have come from the hands of our friends and family. I know that my family and I have been carried through this. I have seen what a blessing it is to have such a wonderful family. I hope that I never take them for granted.

Day 19 - More cool than James Dean

I'm still doing well. Hopefully that will mean that Monday I will have a higher white blood cell count. I actually took the boys by myself to the park this morning. We watched a crop duster near our house. Derek had to take Lizzie to the doctor again because she still is having the rash that they thought was bed bugs. We are changing our detergent to see if that is it. She hasn't had yellow dye since we assumed that it was the culprit. I might even give her a diet of only one food a week. Lets just hope that it is the detergent.

Day 18 - A real spider bite would be mean

I took off the bandage today from the catheter. It looks a little gross. The boys have gotten all of the spider books from the library in the last week and we have read each one a number of times. Derek also saw a video with the boys of a brown recluse spider's bite. It looks just like that; yet there are two wounds. It also looks like I could have been bitten by a vampire. At least my "tentacles" are gone; that's what the catheter reminded me of, octopus tentacles.

Day 17 - Thanks to all those who came to clean

Just so you know the house looks wonderful; even with 3 boys and a baby living in it for a week. My neighbor, Ger and her daughter Helen were here when we got home and they were putting balloons on the kitchen chair and a cake on the table. I got a feeling for the way life use to be before the transplant. My mom went to the store for about 4 hours in the middle of the day, so I had all three kids to myself. It was a lot like the chemo cycles I had after the first mass was found. I am just happy to be home.