What can I say, I give more detailed updates via email! Things are going well bloodwork wise. My WBC is still ultra low, but it takes time to balance all the medications out and such. My lower back is still unhappy. But hopefully that will ease with time and prayer.
I'm soon going to hit the magical 6 week mark: that means I can bend and stretch! And pick things up! Really 8 weeks is the safer threshold, but already I am putting on my own shoes and sleeping on my side (my back thanks me for that). I think it will be a looooong time before I am comfortable enough to say, visit my chiropractor. Gotta protect my organ!
I'm almost at the halfway point of my medical leave. Right now I know I couldn't work, especially with my low immune system. But give me a few more weeks and I hope to feel somewhat more normal. Recovery is much harder than I anticipated and/or was advertised. But even my 'friends' at the lab (I visit so often ;)) say the light is back in my eyes.
I think when you have a kidney, life is suddenly alot better after tx. But with a pancreas, well, you feel relatively okay up until surgery. I think that is key in my attitude versus recipients of both a kidney and a pancreas: I feel worse, they feel better.
I've gotten lots of email - which I am now better responding to - and cards and gift cards, and I can't tell you how much they mean to me. Thanks everyone for your support!
Posted by sfisher at March 19, 2007 08:10 PM