Knock on Wood

58 days since the transplant, 76 more days of isolation, and Pam is continuing to do OK.  She is still very shaky and continues to develop a "Moon Face" from the steroids, but this is all expected.  Her weakness and fatigue are improving.  She can walk a couple of blocks now.  Her steroid dosage is beginning to get tapered, and her face will eventually go back to normal.  She still has trouble lying flat to sleep because of fluid in her trachea, but does not have a fever and she has had a chest xray and CT scan just to make sure she isn't developing pneumonia.

On another positive note, she had enough energy last night to do a little "back seat cooking" while I was making dinner:  "I wouldn't put those in the oven yet."  "You might want to turn those so they brown on both sides." "Did you put butter on the veggies", etc.  Good sign.

Bonnie is still sleeping on our couch, driving Pam to doctors appointments, fussing over both of us, and taking care of everything. Pam and I are both more grateful than you can imagine. We give her weekends off and let her sleep in her own bed as a reward. We don't know what we would do without her help.

As luck would have it, business at Clinicient is busier than ever, and my workload is over the top.  On top of our huge increase in customer growth, Medicare has pelted our customers with a bunch of new, complex regulations that we need to support.  We are trying to hire people to help with the flood of work that needs to be done, but it takes a few months for anyone to really get up to speed.  Age old problem for a growing business.  I am thankful we are doing so well.

Lying in bed last night, I said to Pam "wouldn't be great if this continued to go this smoothly?", then I started knocking on all of the wood within reach. It hasn't been fun, but minus a couple of minor bumps in the road, we haven't had any serious setbacks.  I keep thinking how lucky we are to have great medical care, great support from friends and family, and Pam's great attitude.