Easter Update

Just to keep up the news for those of you who pick up the theme and wonder what happened (I used to hate the blogs which just stop) All is well here on the one year mark since my treatment with my health. I have gone back to work, done some stopgap things and have now settled into a really good job which is giving me a good work/life balance and a lot of new things to learn, but still in the same company.

I am fit and well and about to go to see the consultant tomorrow for my regular check up ahead of my one year scan which should happen over the next few months. Life is good and our little family is fine, childeren grow and blossom without any awareness this is happening and yet constant surprise and delight to me. In our own extended family, and that of my good friends, we have some difficult situations with the health of parents, we wish all as well as can be and as strong as can be.

Today I saw the sun rise over the Alps in Italy in a blue sky before flying back to home to chat and curl up on the couch to watch the apprentice with Lee and Poppy ( Holly being tucked in bed with after a sore tummy day)

Tomorrow I have to revisit the scene of my transplant, smell the hospital once again, and hope I have got away - my good intentions of not drinking at all at home, which have been holding up well, are excused tonight as my mind falls back into the isolation ward and the tree outside the window developing its leaves as I struggled from hour to hour and day to day.

My tree is still in leaf, my strength is good and, apart from the eve of my return to the hospital, my mind is focussed on the future and the normal challenges of living. Long may it continue.

Cheers

Gerry