Check up at 3 weeks

I just realized that it has been 2 weeks since I posted an update. You can be sure that if anything earth shattering had occured, I would have posted it, but instead things have been going smoothly.

I have gradually felt stronger and my labs have been good and my cheeks are getting fuller. Katie tried going back to work right after we got home then thought better of it and stayed home for one more week. She went back to work on the 14th of April feeling much better and able to keep up with her students. She also is taking her grad school classes and sang in the concert with the Seattle Women's Chorus. I sat this concert out as I am still in an abdominal binder that holds my diaphragm high and won't allow a deep breath. But I am planning to go to Miami in July with the chorus to sing at the GALA festival!

I flew back to Madison on Wednesday, 16 April, for an appointment with my surgeon and transplant coordinator. Dr Sollinger was pleased with the progress and labs, he took out my staples and cut my prednisone dose in half. Hurray!! Christa, my coordinator, was also happy with how things are progressing and we will now do labs only twice a week.

I will go back again in 3 weeks then it will probably be a while before I have to go back to Wisconsin, as long as things keep on the straight and narrow.

We hope you are all enjoying Spring and the newness of life that comes every year but is always so lovely to behold and appreciate! Love to you all.