a very happy day

Today I went to the clinic and saw Dr. McGuirk. Keeping in mind that he is the eternal over-optimist, it was a VERY positive visit.

My counts were high. Platelets were 111. Platelets go up first. Hg was 8.5 and wbc 4.0. I have more stamina than I did before I got sick in 2008.

I can drive.
I can move home.
I have a beeeeuuuuteeeeeful rash. Be careful with it but it's what we want to see.

No gardening, but what else do you want to do?

I picked up my car and took it to the shop for the brake work it needs. Mom put the last coat of varnish on the new stair railing (I've been using it, but it wasn't quite finished.)

I am really getting well.

It has been a very happy day.

I had lunch with two scout friends, Dick and Brant. We had a great time catching up, gossiping and trading stories. Dick stood up to leave and he said "I'm going to go home and Pat is going to ask me questions about you and I'm going have to answer "I don't know...we didn't get to that."" Ha ha. We had a lot of laughs. I am thinking about when to go to a scout meeting. There are things to think about like H1N1.

I have had a flu shot but the clinic does not have H1N1 vaccine yet. BMT patients like myself cannot be around people who have the nasal spray H1N1 vaccine for 8 days, and of course we can't get that one. So I will be making calls to my other doctors to see if someone has the vaccine.
Never, ever, ever, ever give up.

~Cathi