July 27, 2009 11:10 PM

Not much to say today!

I did my painting as I promised myself that I would. Tomorrow will be more.

But, other than that, it was a quiet day. Uneventful as they say. Looking forward to Wednesday so that I can, hopefully, take the next step and continue my weaning from the immuno-suppressants. There have really been no signs of graft vs host disease. The doctor said initially that if graft vs host disease would appear, it would be in the about 3 months after the transplant. For me nothing has appeared. In my ignorance, I am assuming that the worst(!) is now over and that it will be all downhill from here.

For me, there is another element to not having graft vs host disease and that is that I do not have to make the decision as to whether or not I wished to take part in the clinical trial of a new drug that is being developed to relieve the symptoms of the GvH disease. I was somewhat reluctant to do so because known side effects of the drug were devastating - death, brain damage, etc. Admittedly, this happened in only a very small percentage of cases, but I was very leery of taking the risk.

I am sure that the side effects from the drugs that I am taking offer similar opportunities(!). But the difference is that I have to take these - I have no choice. I have never looked up the side effects because I didn't want to know. Ignorance is bliss as "they" say.

Fortunately, I have suffered no side effects of any consequence.

The miracle keeps on rolling day after day after day...

Bob