1st Stem Cell Birthday!!

Happy birthday to me!!!! These past couple of weeks have been so surreal looking back on my “1 year ago today” memories. 365 days ago was such a happy, exciting, and emotional day getting my stem cells back followed by celebrating with my fellow stem cell brothers and sister before heading up to the rooftop […]

Day +334//11 Months

Last year at this time I was making my final preparations before I left for Mexico, making check list after check list. We tore out old carpet in our bedroom and put down hardwood, we scheduled air duct cleaning, we fixed a hole in our roof that we had just discovered was the cause of […]

Day +303//ten months

I find it unbelievable that my awesome new immune system is 10 months old today. That seems crazy to me. Double digits!! Really nothing new to report this month, which is good! My third round of vaccines went great because I only needed one shot. Next month I’m back to getting a vaccine cocktail but […]

Day +274//9 Months (and one day, because this is posting after midnight)

45 minutes from my house is a fun place I spent many hot summer days at growing up, Michigan’s Adventure. It is an amusement park that has a roller coaster park and a water park and so far this summer we have already spent 7 days there. It’s a good thing we got the season […]

Day +248// 8 Month (and 6 days) Update

A couple of weeks ago I finally went to get my first round of vaccines. I was planning on waiting until my 1 year to get my blood tested to see what immunities I retained and only vaccinate against those but my hematologist and neurologist urged me to follow the normal revaccination schedule that HSCT […]

Day +212 // 7 Month update

7 months ago I was sitting in an office at the clinic in Monterrey with sweaty palms anxiously waiting for the doctor to walk in with my little bag of stem cells. HSCT although right in the name is a stem cell transplant, is really all about the chemo. Without the chemo, this treatment is […]

Day +181//6 months

Another month in the books! Overall I’m feeling the same as previous months. Feeling stronger and taking it one step at a time getting closer and closer to taking my life back. At 6 months I’m cleared to eat at restaurants and drink alcohol and stop my prophylactic medications. I celebrated by enjoying a date […]

Day +153// 5 month update: seeing and feeling progress!

Hi friends! That was a really quick month and it’s been a great one. I’ve managed to stay healthy and officially made it a whole month without getting sick…I’ll be right back, I have to go knock on all the wood…and life is really feeling like it’s getting back to normal. We changed our daughter’s […]

Day +122 // 4 Months!

This is all going by so quickly. It’s hard to believe that it has alredady been 122 days since Dr. Gomez hung up my bag of stem cells and hooked them to my PICC line and started my new life. I feel so incredibly blessed to have been able to get this done when I […]

Day +91//3 month update!

I’m officially at my first big benchmark today! In Mexico the doctors said to wait 3 months to go in crowded places. Last week I started doing preschool drop off again and it was awesome! I’ve so missed my “preschool mom friends” and it was great seeing everyone again. In January we will have to […]