Today was a big day toward my journey toward normal life. First, I had my follow up check up at the stem cell clinic. I found out that my wbcs were normal, my platelets were normal, my electrolytes were all normal and my hemoglobin had increased to the nines range. All big wins. I actually graduated to the next level of stem cell clinic because I was doing so good. On top of all of that, only should have been home the day before but I had already been home for 10 days. Awesome. I am so grateful.

On top of that, I got to get my triple lumen central line catheter out. So that big old three port things has been inserted into my main veins and sticking out of my chest for the last two months. It is the remaining visual cue that I am sick, besides the baldness of course..lol. Anyway, so that got to be removed today. It was actually the first thing scheduled by me that I got to home after it was completed. It was really huge. We actually had fun with it. They played AC DC for me. They did it all with local anesthesia. It was one of the easiest things I had to do so far. Then, I actually got to go home with less appliances attached to me for once. Win! Have a great day everybody.

Dr. Katz