Hair and Hugs

Hair and Hugs

My hair is beginning to grow in again. I look like a really hairy peach right now, and I think I look even weirder than I did when I was completely bald. But I had a tender mercy a few days ago that has helped me see my head from a different perspective. I was at my...
Celebrate!

Celebrate!

I took a big test today-it had 5.2 million questions and took 7 hours with almost constant surveillance (I’m sure they were making sure I didn’t cheat). If I passed the test, I could be done with the process that tells my bone marrow to produce and send stem cells...
Planting Time

Planting Time

Here’s my latest update, along with details about the reality I’ll be facing (as far as I know without having actually experienced it) for the next six weeks or so. I met with the Bone Marrow Transplant team to go over everything before all the transplant prep starts....
The Wild Mouse

The Wild Mouse

Here’s my long past due update: It’s going to cover multiple weeks, since I haven’t done an update since April 10. Just think of four shorter updates all rolled into one, unusually long one. In the 1980’s there was a wooden roller coaster at Lagoon in...
Miracles

Miracles

https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ultrasound-of-the-heart.mp4 I had a bad week last week with lots of side effects, so didn’t get an update done (sometimes I just don’t feel like communicating, to be honest.) I had another treatment yesterday. It...
Skele-Gro

Skele-Gro

https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Skele-Gro-1.mp4 March 29, 2024  It’s been twelve days since I updated my blog. I’ve been so up and down since then. It was a great 5 days, followed by a really rough four and pretty good the last three. I wrote a...