March 20, 2009 10:05 PM 69 days to go

The "major" event of the day was that spring has finally arrived. No change in the weather - but it certainly gives us cause to hope that it will improve in the near future.

Likewise, no change in my condition. So we can't look for much improvement in that area but we can look for the transplant to take and for the graft vs host disease(known as GVHD in the vernacular), side effects to be minimal. Only time will tell and time is the one thing that I seem to have plenty of at this time.

I have been e-mailing Joan Barr-Smith over the past few days and, as much as I can assist her by sharing my experience, I find that being able to connect with someone who is somewhat paralleling my recent history has been of great benefit to me as well. So, just when things seem to come come to an ebb as I wait out my recovery period, they begin to pick up on another front. It was the same way back in January when Janne happened upon this blog and began sharing her experience from the donor's side.

God works in strange ways and I am never ceased to be amazed at the way things seem to go. Certainly they never seem to go the way that I had assumed they would. As much as this blog has been acknowledged as being a to help others, it is a two-way street and I look for(and receive) support from all of you as well. I cannot thank you enough.

So, as the arrival of spring sets our sights on new life and looking for better days to come, I look for the same...

Bob