The comment from the doctor this morning was “you are a poster patient”.
On Saturday, I bottomed-out on my blood counts and am now on the way up. My progress in the last two days has been very good. I have not had all of the terrible symptoms that were described to me. I was very fortunate to have missed the mouth sores. My hair started falling out two days ago – still a lot left but won’t be for long. I am still tired and sleep a lot.
The hardest part has been trying to eat. I have worked hard to get the food down. Even though my numbers are up my appetite has not returned to normal. That may be the result of the wonderful hospital food. Hopefully things will be better when I get home. For the most part I am feeling pretty good, although my earlier problem with Catheter Zeta Bones has not been resolved.
Irene has been here with me every day. Usually from 7:30am until 9:00pm. I do not know how I could have gotten through this without her encouragement.
So after nearly two weeks in the hospital, I have been told that I have made enough progress from the bone marrow transplant that I will be discharged on either Tuesday or Wednesday and sent home to continue to recover from there. I will probably be meeting with Urology later this week. Until then a portable Catheter Zeta Bones will be coming home with me.
I want to thank everyone for their encouraging comments, emails, cards, pictures and cookies. They helped me get through my days here at the hospital.
-larry and portable Catheter Zeta Jones (Forrest Pump was disconnected)