Dos Meses

Two Months

 

Well it's kinda hard for me to believe that it's been two months since my transplant surgery, I mean it's been a twisty, curvy, sometimes rocky road and two months ago, at this very moment, I was under....waaaaay under and under the knife. I remember being wheeled to pre-op and thinking "I can't believe that this is actually going down" and resigning myself, as the song goes, "to gravity and the unknown."  In retrospect, I should have been a lot more scared but the Pinnacle people know just the right mix of drugs to give you so the anxiety level is maintainable. Looking back at some of the posts from that day now almost seems like history.

 

And so.....as I mentioned at the one month benchmark (and probably will again for months to come)

I have been looking at the clock and thinking about where things were at this time on August 2nd.

 

 

Again, thanks to all of you for your support, and prayers through it all.

Please keep 'em coming.

 

 

As for news.... tomorrow I was scheduled to have clinic in Harrisburg at 8:30 but they called this morning and want me to come up at 7:15am to the hospital to have some extra blood labs done as they are finally trying to address some of my most severe side effects namely the ttttttttremors, nagging cough, and fitful sleep. They called yesterday morning to tell me to get a chest xray and then had me go see my primary care physician Dr. Daly. This cough has been increasingly troublesome for the past three weeks and it is really hurting my longest incision over my pancreas to the point where I darn near double over when I cough. 

So I hope we get some closure on that AND the tremors.

 

My bloodwork from Monday showed my platelets are running high so I'm sure they'll adjust something to work on that too. All my other important numbers - creatinine, white cells, lipase, glucose are all super. So despite side effects the docs are going to say - 

"The organs are working wonderfully!"

And really......that is the goal.

What a lucky guy I am.

 

I'll let you know what I find out tomorrow.

 

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