Well folks, it's here. Today is my 100th day post-transplant.
As I've said all along, this is an important milestone. Most of the horrid complications of a transplant are likely to occur in the first 100 days, and having gotten through them safely is important.
Also, supposedly I'm going to start feeling better faster, now that three months have passed.
The way things stand, the recovery has been slow. Eating is still hard--while my taste buds are slowly improving, the dry mouth and appetite are not much better yet. My weight is stable at around 160 pounds; which means I've stopped losing weight, but I haven't yet scrounged up enough calories to start gaining back. I'm not significantly stronger yet either, but have been doing okay. I stopped taking the Valcyte (CMV drug), which had been holding down my blood counts--so those should be going up nicely. Soon, hopefully.
I've started exercising; I go to the gym three times a week, with hopes of slowly building up some strength. Though like with everything else, there aren't any dramatic results in that department just yet :-)
A few weeks ago I took a short trip to Pittsburgh to check on things. I had not been back to my apartment since about six months prior, before my relapse. Thankfully everything was still in order. I'm going again this week, and will stay a few days longer. I'll be getting a chance to see my colleagues at the UPMC hand surgery fellows' graduation, which I'm very much looking forward to.
I'm also looking forward to eventually figuring out my own path back to work and hopefully back to hand surgery, though that's a process which is going to take quite a bit more than a hundred days. For now, the goal is to have the energy to get through each day, be less tired, eat more, and just do more.
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