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Pity Party – Table for One
I try to keep my blog entries positive and informative, perhaps at times even avoiding my true thoughts and feelings. This is not one of those posts. This post is all about me and how I am feeling. How George’s leukemia has affected me. Warning: this may seem petty af in the large scope of…
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Day +43
It’s definitely been a minute since I posted an update. Mainly because things have been pretty uneventful for the past couple of weeks. Which, in some ways is a good thing! I continue to try to find food that George likes to eat. I think we have a good combination for breakfast….these egg frittatas are…
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25 year old male
While I was reading through the visit summary notes from George’s visit with the nurse practitioner last Tuesday, something caught my eye…a bit of information we have been trying to get our hands on since a bone marrow donor was found for George’s transplant. That is, the donor’s sex and age – two things that…
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Great Expectations
George and I took our first overseas vacation in the summer of 2017. We took my stepson, Michael to England, the country of his birth. George was stationed at Mildenhall Air Base outside of London and Michael was born during that time in 2001. We enjoyed it so much, George and I went back to…
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Day +27
George has been home from the hospital for 10 days now…seems kind of hard to believe! Our days are pretty much the same. We get up and have coffee, which George says doesn’t taste like coffee. Then I take our dog out for a walk before it gets too hot, at about 6:45 or 7:00…
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First Days at Home
George was so happy to sleep in his own bed last night and awaken to his own coffee in his favorite mug! He said it still tasted different – like creamer in dark water, but hopefully his “chemo mouth” will improve with every passing day. At about 7:30 the evening of his homecoming, we received…
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Day +17 – HOME!
24 days after going into the hospital for his bone marrow transplant and 208 days after his first hospital admittance, George was discharged with new donor cells working hard to manufacture new blood cells! He was supposed to be released on day +16 because his counts were recovering so well! But, on Saturday he didn’t…
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We can see the light!
*light at the end of the tunnel: a long-awaited indication that a period of hardship or adversity is nearing an end. On Day +13, I went to visit George and he was lounging in his recliner, tired and still not feeling great. He still had mouth pain, but he said it wasn’t as bad. Not…
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Encouraging news!
Day +12 – the doctor came into George’s room and told him she was happy to see that his white blood cell counts were slowly going up! She said he was where they had hoped he would be at this point in his recovery. Whaat?? That’s fantastic news! I took it as a sign that…
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Day +10 and +11
When I walked into the hospital room Monday afternoon, I was shocked to see George working! He looked exhausted and was ready to knock off for the day, after somehow putting in 8 hours. He moved from the makeshift work station to his bed and I sat in a chair near by. I gave him…
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Diagnosis: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A Journey 