My Weekly Update

Health Update

Yesterday I had my check-up with my doctor.  Everything has been coming along nicely with regards to my health over the past few weeks and it continued this past week.  My GVHD continued to stay under control despite the taper we did last week.  Since my GVHD has stayed under control the doctor started another taper on my steroids and reduced my dose to 100mg.  It is crazy to think only a few weeks ago I was on 200mg per day!  The other great news was it was made permanent that I only have to go once a week to the hospital for checkups, as long nothing goes wrong with my health of course. 

Personal Update

Not too much to update on the personal front.  The reduction in steroids has reduced the peppiness that comes along with high dose steroids.  As a result, I have been sleeping much more over the past week which has kept me away from writing.  I end up needing some pretty lengthy naps each day.  I have decided that I am going to try and walk everyday now.  I think by getting back to exercising it will help build back up my energy levels and rebuild all the cells that were destroyed during my transplant.  In addition, I can tell the steroids have really started to eat away the muscles away in my legs as they get tired very easily these days.  When I went through my chemo cycles last year and I added exercise to my routine, although it was hard at the beginning, it really made a difference so I using the same strategy.  The walks will help rebuild the strength in my body and allow me to just start enjoying the beginning of spring on the waterfront.  I got out for my first walk on Monday afternoon.  The weather was actually beautiful and it felt great to get outside.  I brought my camera but didn’t get too many pictures, I need to work on getting my creative eye back J

Well that is all of the update for this week, told you it wasn’t as big as usual J

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