Praise the Lord! My CMV levels went down from 45,000 to 9,000, not sure what all the numbers means but sounds good! That means the medication is working and I don’t have to be on an IV or change medications at this time. I also got moved to once a week next week. SWEET! Everything else is looking great too and there were no changes in meds at this time. The pain from coming off the prednisone has moved to more cramps in my hands, feet, and legs, but again I know this is temporary, I’m a pretty tough cookie by now. There is also some swelling in my feet still and my cheeks so don’t think I’m getting hefty, even though I am eating us out of house and home. Steroids much trick you body into thinking you eating for 3. Pain is all relative at this point so all this temporary stuff should be a piece of cake….. that I will eat. My lungs sound great, my voice is coming back again, I’m feeling pretty good, getting into to some jeans that hasn’t fit in a while, but he did say no to sushi for now…. Win some lose some, but always push the envelope! Thanks so much for your prayers. I’m on day 44, far from the danger zone, go ahead you can sing, but moving on out, that’s a song too.
The best part of the day was spending time with my Poppa Bill. I don’t take my meds until late on Friday mornings because my appointments are usually at 7am and they have to check my labs without the meds sometimes….. So I’m able to drive that early in the morning. And boy did I drive…. My Poppas black, smooth, Cadillac. I love this car. I feel like the queen of England. In fact, next time I drive, I will have to wear a vintage hat and maybe some gloves…. Yea. So I past my driving test that morning. Poppa drove on the way home and past his driving test also. We had a wonderful time talking and hearing old stories, many will be in other blogs later. The cancer patient and the old man were a little sneaky today and didn’t tell many people that we were going together. Hee Hee. Poppa has been wanting to be a part of all this Emory stuff since the beginning, he is a Dr. ya know, and I would never let him come down there because I didn’t want him to pick up anything, but now that I’m seeing Dr. Khoury so early, there is no one there. There was a driving fluke with poppa a little while back and I hadn’t rode with him since so it was time, and it ‘s not time to take the keys away…. Right Poppa? We always like to ask for forgiveness before permission on certain matters anyway, but we didn’t ask for forgiveness. On the way back through Athens, Pop showed me houses that he had build and bricked through the 40’s-60’s and I was able to write now the addresses.
So many blessings happened today but I’m going to share them in a personal blog.
God Bless!
Love, Heather
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