Very Good Day

Today was a very good day! I had very little nausea and no vomiting. The Dr nows says that he thinks the esophagus has a little GVH, but the biopsies are not back yet that they took during the EGD. So we will just have to wait and see. He says it is really better to have a little GVH which Steve also said in one of his blogs. It shows the graft is doing what it is supposed to do. The Dr is very happy with my counts. He says I am definitely engrafted with libby's bone marrow cells. My hemoglobin continues to climb and I have needed no red blood cell tranfusions. My platelets are still low, but he says that the platelts are the last cells to catch on and grow. You can tell they are low, my body is covered in bruises. I fell on one of those nights I was having hallucinations and my butt is one big bruise! Steve, at least Mickey Mouse didn't lock me out of my bathroom, but I was seeeing all kinds of strange things. I swore there was a weird cat in my room and my nurse kept reassuring me they would not have cats up there. My white count is up to normal limits and I am not what they call neutropenic any more. that means I am not as susceptible to infection as I was. So, now they are preparing me for discharge. I started taking some pills today. It went well. More tomorrow. The Dr said the steroids are making my blood sugar go up and I may need to be on insulin until I am weaned of the steroids. It depends on what reading it is tomorrow. It was 170 fasting today. So, Erika, I may be joining you! Although, you will probably be done with that soon. As soon as Liv gets here, which may be within the week! Exciting!!!!!!!!! Kyle trimmed KD and Erika's trees today and then had lunch that Erika made for him. then he came up to see me. We had dinner together. And we are watching the Tigers game. So it has been a very good day Keeps me saying YES I CAN!