10/1/12
Happy New Year folks!Well December came and went and I didn't update you - you can take that as no news is good news! We all hope that you've had a great Christmas and New Year - we certainly did!
I'll update you on my health quickly - day 157 post transplant - woop woop! Everything is good (even the mindset!) - I had a review early December and then once again today. Bloods are all clean and my counts are approaching normality - platelets being lowest which were at 140 (up from 130 in Dec) with the norm at 150. So this is all very encouraging and a relief to us all.
I do say to people "I'm in remission and long may it last" because that is where we are in terms of the impact this disease has on us all - unfortunately it's remission not cure - however it appears that successful treatment is moving more towards a potential for the 'c'. So recently I have been lucky that to some degree I haven't even been thinking about the illness - this really helps the mindset. In a couple of weeks I'm having my port removed (from my chest) - this is done under local and is something of a farewell to an old friend, which was dependable throughout all of the former treatments.
Mellon doings
Liz had a milestone birthday in November with a party with many friends. She enjoyed it once we were at the party!
Bay of Islands - beautiful, swim with dolphins, very wet bike ride, drinkies!!
Auckland - the city and Segway tours.
Waitomo - CAVING!! (yay!) - glow worms, blackwater rafting, fantastic streamway.
Rotorua - smelly hot springs, mud baths, geysers, cultural presentation and Hangi meal, Liz and Kyle rafting the Kaituna river and the highest commercially rafted waterfall in the world - 7m Tutea Falls.
Huka Falls above
Christchurch - home from home with Lesley & Barry, catching up with Lesley's Mum and Dad - smashing people. Great walks, sad city centre and surrounds, interesting container Mall, "old-time" chats.
1600 kilometres! 1000 miles in old money.
Hayley flew from NZ to Fiji with "the Girls" and had a great week sunning themselves and chilling.
Kyle is currently in Sydney competing tomorrow in a triathlon, he'd like to qualify for the world championships in England in September -watch out blighty!
Kathryn is in Arizona on training camp with the Cal U team.
Liz and I are on holiday next week also (chilling out!) and we are planning a USA trip in May for Kathryn's graduation.
Some piccies of New Zealand above - I'll update you in about 6 months so that I don't bore you all with more holiday chats!!
That's fantastic news! It looks like you had a blast on your holiday and your health is reaching new strengths.
ReplyDeleteI'm really happy for you guys.
Big hugs from Cat (and Trev, who always has best wishes but also has an aversion to facebook and phones)
Really enjoyed the blog hairy Melly and the photos exciting trip. Great to see you all enjoying life so much..you deserve it. Lol JXXX
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