Although not exciting, here's the updates I do have:
1. I have a hacking cough. It's been here a while, and its painstakingly slow at diminishing. But I've had everything checked, a CT scan, tons of blood work, routine and exceptional…and, guess what? I have a hacking cough that is slow to go away. I'm taking some steroids and antibiotics, and I am trying to be patient. A nagging cough is not detremental to healthy people, and that's who I'm choosing to be.
2. On the especially healthy note, my Parvo virus number and CMV number are drastically lower, and both are almost in normal healthy range, which Dr Wali calls negative results(we have a difference of opinion on this) :)
3. I'm still not taking any Cellcept(one of the 2 immunosuppresant drugs transplant patients always take) to give my immune system a fighting chance to defeat parvo and CMV. There was lots of concern about opening up the door for rejection, but none of it has been founded. Yay for me and my immune system!
Literally, this is all I've got. I have to pause saying this as it brings up a brief and crazy and ironic and twisted sense of disappointment at not having more exciting and pressing news to share, like I'm letting people down by not having another medical challenge to rise above right now.
My 10 month transplantiversary was August 4. My complications and I had a good 10 month run of playing tit-for-tat. It was close sometimes, we were neck and neck, and I spent plenty of nail-biting nights wondering about outcomes, but I was ultimately victorious.
So, I'm taking a deep breath, reflecting on my journey, grateful for my success and growth. I appreciate the lull, the valley, this precarious, tenacious, fickle unsettling calm.
Exhaling, I know my boat will be rocked sometime in the future, but I wont let it tip;
I will continue to choose victory.
Exhaling, I know my boat will be rocked sometime in the future, but I wont let it tip;
I will continue to choose victory.
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