Nothing too serious but there was a few days of "payback" for my efforts at the Monster Bike and Hike. I thought I was doing well to do support from 5am to 10pm and then take the kids swimming the next day, before finally driving down to Edinburgh with my family. Actually it seems like I was overdoing it a bit, over the next two days I could hardly get out of bed, never mind stick to my gym routine, as waves of fatigue took over once the adrenaline of the event had passed.
However no harm seems to have been done and today my energy levels are returning to reasonable levels, helped by the good sleeps of the past few days, and a good diet which was a bit missing during the weekend. So organic soups, fruit smoothies, fish and lamb main courses have all been consumed and my stomach is returning to normal.
The hospital team are pretty pleased with my bloodwork as my haemoglobin level has gone up to 130 (was 100 for weeks but should be 180 when I am well) so is finally starting to recover while white blood cells and platlets are all about normal now. I saw Dr Scott today and she continues to be surprised at the speed of my recovery, she encourages my agressive approach to exercise, within the limits we have set, while preparing me mentally for possible complications. She remined me it is normal for folks in my position to have 2 or 3 short returns to hospital when infections or other complications take hold. I of course am hoping that my drive for fitness will make me the exception, but I know there is a good chance I will be caught out. In the meantime it looks like the medics are going to stretch out my hospital appointments to once per week and then in a few weeks once per two weeks which will be great (less needles).
Having got the immediate post hospital recovery out of the way ( ie got past sickness, upset tummy and sleeping all the time) and having got the Monster out of the way Lee and I are starting to open up our horizions to the future. Tonight we are looking at holiday cottages for July or August, tomorrow night I think we will try and go out for our first resturant dinner as a couple since the transplant to celebrate being home and being pretty normal. We did not feel like celebrating when I got out of hospital, basically because I still felt terrible, but I think a milestone has been crossed now and we can relax a bit into a more normal life with convalesance taking the place of work for me for a few months.
On the more mundane side I did, with some help, finally get my beloved MG going for the MG club meeting last night and enjoyed discussing the fitments for the new fuel pump with the guys there. Lee took the bluesmobile to Aberdeen so after that, and the Inverness trip, it is in need of some TLC once the showers stop (the weather has been terrible since the Monster hike in Scotland they were lucky to have the last good day for a week). It looks like Lee's business is finally going to go forward as we have agreement on the set up from her Research Institute and just need to get the legal documents sorted. So life is busy enough.
So this week was a good measure of how much I have recovered and how much I still need to recover but I am feeling pretty positive overall and looking forward to getting stronger day by day.
Cheers
Gerry
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