Day 30

Sorry for the lack of updates but there have been some unpredictable setbacks of late.

In positive news, engraphment has gone well. My new immune system has settled in well so far and things are progressing positively on that front.

But my big concern over the past days and weeks has been liver and kidney failure - not the most common side effects of the transplant process, but ones I've seemed to pick up nonetheless. I have a bit of an affinity for these odd side effects. It's not entirely clear what happened but it appears I developed a major clot in my liver which stopped it from working, which in turn stopped my kidneys from working. I was pretty out of it and am told there was talk of real organ failure and possible transplants. I wasn't taking it very seriously at first, but it was pretty serious.

Thankfully this is now in hindsight and what was a pretty serious situation seems to be moving in the right direction with my body finally healing itself.

Still, it's as though just when life seems to be on track again, things conspire to get so very, very hard. I try not to get to emotional here, but the constant hits are discouraging. My wife works very hard to keep me level, and I don't know where I'd be without her. I need this to be over and for things to be back to normal. I truly had no idea how hard this would get.

I've eaten very little these past few weeks and am looking a bit like an extra from the walking dead.