It’s Day +13 post-transplant (Day 0 is transplant day) and I’m doing amazingly well considering all that my body has been through the past several weeks! Though I’ve been working hard to eat what I can and exercise when possible, God and everyone’s prayers are definitely the reason I’ve been recovering so much faster than even the doctors thought possible. My doctors have used words like “amazing,” “incredible,” and “wow” in the past couple days when discussing my progress.
At the risk of totally oversimplifying and botching the process of recovering from a BMT, I’ll attempt to describe it here. Basically my immune system starts from scratch on Day 0 and has to completely rebuild itself. For my type of transplant, they usually don’t see evidence of this process until at least Day 14, but in my case they started seeing my white blood cells and other functions of my immune system recover on Day 9. Today, 13 days post transplant, they’re planning on me going home this Sunday, March 13!
With all this good news, I can easily get ahead of myself, as I did yesterday when we asked when I could walk around outside the BMT unit. The doctor reminded me that I was 12 days post transplant and therefore like a 12 day-old newborn. He said that everyone should treat me with the precautions they would a newborn, though if he caught Zack or my mom trying to burp me, he would have some concerns.
Please pray for me to go home next Sunday. Though there’s a very high risk of me having to get re-admitted within the first couple months for viruses or infections, which we pray and hope doesn’t happen, going home for any period of time would be a huge encouragement. Sorry RP, but it’s time to say good-bye :).
At the risk of totally oversimplifying and botching the process of recovering from a BMT, I’ll attempt to describe it here. Basically my immune system starts from scratch on Day 0 and has to completely rebuild itself. For my type of transplant, they usually don’t see evidence of this process until at least Day 14, but in my case they started seeing my white blood cells and other functions of my immune system recover on Day 9. Today, 13 days post transplant, they’re planning on me going home this Sunday, March 13!
With all this good news, I can easily get ahead of myself, as I did yesterday when we asked when I could walk around outside the BMT unit. The doctor reminded me that I was 12 days post transplant and therefore like a 12 day-old newborn. He said that everyone should treat me with the precautions they would a newborn, though if he caught Zack or my mom trying to burp me, he would have some concerns.
Please pray for me to go home next Sunday. Though there’s a very high risk of me having to get re-admitted within the first couple months for viruses or infections, which we pray and hope doesn’t happen, going home for any period of time would be a huge encouragement. Sorry RP, but it’s time to say good-bye :).
WOW! AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! ... God ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe burping may not be appropriate....but the coddling, loving and special attention is:) March 13.....what a gift that would be!!! Your mom really wouldn't care about a birthday gift....as you would be it! Go body go....and Zack and others stay superhealthy to care for your new baby!!! xo
ReplyDeleteTo quote someone famous, "Go, God!"
ReplyDeletethat is such great news!!! i will be praying for your wish to go home on Sat.
ReplyDeletethinking of you everyday.
:D)))))))))) although selfishly i like having you close by to here, i'm excited that you can go home.
ReplyDeleteCaroline, you better come visit me at home! Though I'll cut you some slack till tax season is over ;)
ReplyDeleteMy inner computer scientist enjoys the 0-index counting :)
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