All Entries in the "Reason to Smile" Category
Post Transplant (Week 11)
*(Day +70), Tuesday, (July 20th) was a pretty uneventful day. I had to go to the BMT clinic in the morning to get platelets. While I was in clinic I finally met another patient who is around my age. We had been talking on facebook but she didn’t get out of the hospital until now. I’m [...]
Post Transplant (Week 10)
(Day +62), Monday, (July 12th) has been another great day. I had an appointment at clinic this morning at 10 a.m. just to get some labs drawn and meet with Dina, a nurse practitioner. Afterwards we came back to the house and ate lunch outside because the weather was so beautiful. I spent the afternoon napping [...]
Post Transplant (Week 9)
*(Day +55), Monday, (July 5th) was not a very good day. Turns out I have meningitis and pneumonia. They’ve put me on antibiotics to fight it but I’m nervous about both. I haven’t had any more fevers so I’m hoping that means the antibiotics are working. I’ve also started gaining water weight again. When I left [...]
Post Transplant (Week 7)
*(Day +41), Monday, (June 21st) and (Day +42), Tuesday, (June 22nd) are both a blur. Couldn’t really tell you what happened because I was knocked out on pain meds. I pretty much only woke up to go to the bathroom, eat and take pills. I don’t even remember what I ate or who my nurses were. I know I got [...]
Post Transplant (Week 6)
*(Day +34), Monday, (June 14th), was another good day. It’s been raining all week so my mood has been a little drowsier and sleepier. I just haven’t been as active or online. Hence the reason for the late blogging. Good news, My white blood cell count hit .9. My cells are continuing to engraft. My [...]
Post Transplant (Week 5)
*(Day +27), Monday, (June 7th), has been a great and mundane day. I fell asleep around 2 last night but slept surprisingly well during the night. They didn’t give me any medicine to pee during the night and had my fluids running at a lower rate so I only had to get up like twice [...]
Post Transplant (Week 4)
*(Day +20), Monday, (May 31st), is a great day! I was woken up this morning around 6 a.m. by my nurse who told me that my counts had just come back and my white blood cell count had finally jumped from .1 to .2! This is good news because it means that one of the [...]
Post-Transplant (Week 3)
*(Day +13), Monday, (May 24th), was a nice day. I woke up around 8 and ate some pop tarts and watched some TV. I got my usual morning platelet transfusion around noon and then tried to nap a little bit but couldn’t really get comfortable. My legs started to swell again because of the meds [...]
New York, I Love You (Part 3)
Sunday: On Sunday we got up and met some girls for brunch at 1834 Bar & Burger. The girls were all really nice and they even gave me a scrapbook that I can use to scrapbook about NYC. They filled out the first several pages with some of their favorite places in the city. I [...]
New York, I Love You (Part 2)
Friday: Friday I slept in until after ten because I was exhausted from my night of Broadway fun. After I woke up, I took a nice walk from Laura’s apartment to her MTV office in Times Square. We ate lunch in the MTV cafeteria and I got to hang out in the office for the [...]
New York, I Love You
Lovely readers, Anyone who knows anything about me knows one thing is for certain: I am in love with a little place called NEW YORK CITY. Yes, it is true. I do not get to visit nearly as often as I would like but I will be going to college there next year so I [...]
THE Ferriscan
I promised you an entry about this weekend so here it is: Thursday: We left KC around noon and made it to Minneapolis in seven hours. I drove the last six of the seven hours. We took my car this time instead of my mom’s van so that made driving much more enjoyable for me. [...]
