Hi Kat! I always enjoy seeing your updates, especially when you include the Day +. Crazy how fast the months have flown by since you and I started talking about the possiblity of a bone marrow transplant! Now you’re at day +206. Now ‘lookit you go’! 👀 Your recovery has been so remarkable!! (Oops, not in the medical term. We like being labeled unremarkable 😅)

Had to smile with your comment about weight loss and now maintaining your desired weight. My hand shot up! Me too! Me too! Before my diagnosis with AML, I had struggled to lose those multiplying, pesky menopause pounds. I was an exercise freak all my life and at 65 was still walking 10 miles a day and lifting weights but nothing worked. Then of course, with what I thought was MY concerted effort to lose, I lost 10 pounds with little effort. Silly me, had no idea the ticking time bomb of leukemia was lurking in the background!
Months of chemo and the subsequent BMT changed that profile, quite literally. I gained back enough pounds to make my doctors happy and now it seems easy to keep at this weight. So I’m a happy gurl too. Like you, I had a young male donor. My guy was 20 at the time so we’ve now aged 5+ years together. I quite literally feel like I’m in my 20s. And at 70, I still put on at least 8 miles daily and still lift weights, bike, run up the stairs…living life like they left the gate open. 😅

For newbies like @deb913 who has just started conditioning for her BMT and to @j0318 who is patiently (or impatiently 😉) waiting for a donor, the positive information we can give them along their journeys gives them peace and encouragement. It helps instill confidence in their decision to move forward and also offers hope.

Congrats on the next round of vaccinations. Slowly you’re turning into an adult again. ☺️ I love your moments of Joy!