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June 12, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal Well, folks, I am busting out of this joint today! Yesterday Dr. Kota told me that he really wanted my white count to be at least one to send me home, but he would probably be okay with 0.9 if everything else looked good. My trendContinue reading “Country Road, Take Me Home!”

June 9, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal So yesterday was miserable – there is just no way around it. I woke up at 4:30 that morning (no worries I fell asleep around 8 the night before so I was plenty rested) with excruciating pain in my shoulderblade/back. It was exactly the pain IContinue reading “I think I sneezed funny”

June 4, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal Please don’t contact John Bunyan’s family and tell them to sue me for Copywrite infringement, but I really couldn’t think of a better way to describe the past few days. If you’ve been here for a while you will be familiar with my “halfway slump.” IContinue reading “the slough of despond”

May 29, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal several folks have asked so I thought I’d do a quick post with the address so it’s easier to find. For about 2-3 more weeks I will be in the hospital. They told me to plan for a 28 day stay give or take, it allContinue reading “My Addresses”

May 29, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal The people have asked….I have listened….Here is your update for Day+3 (this is how we in transplant land refer to the days – Day 0 is my “new birthday” and we countdown the time line each way respectively) It has been a pretty boring three daysContinue reading “No News is Good News!”

May 20, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal I’m checked back in! Room 5635 this time. I am in the same unit but on a different hall for the transplant patients. I am a little more protected than last time and my room is much much bigger. I have three big windows this time,Continue reading “Room 5635”

May 14, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal Several years after Jack and Eli were born when I was coming out of the fog of having three children under two, I began to feel like I wanted just one more baby. Marsh was not so convinced. We spent what felt like ages going backContinue reading “Sweet 16 – the number of the week”

May 12, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal So, all of my counts were fabulous today. I was so excited I forgot to write them down. I got to get a Starbucks I did so well 😊 We also got the report that my last biopsy still showed NO cancer cells! Haven’t heard newsContinue reading “quick report 5/12/20”

May 12, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal Good morning good people! Today is kind of a big day. My donor goes in for collection – please pray that things go smoothly for her, she recovers quickly, and that they are able to collect even more than what is needed for my transplant (ifContinue reading “Today is a big day!”

May 4, 2020 · from Lesley’s original CaringBridge journal Today has been a truly good day from one end to the other. So much good to report. First of all I took the last (for now) of my oral chemo round (a.k.a. The skunk pills bc that’s truly what they smell like) this morning. TheContinue reading “Marvelous Monday (hold the mail!)”