JoesGathering: Happy Day 100

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Happy Day 100

It's Day 100 after Joe's transplant. He's done a stellar job of keepin' it boring. Big thanks to our First Lieutenant of Care Giving, my sisters, friends and fambly. Joe was rewarded with a full day of scans and other procedures. He continues to taper the steroids. Assuming we keep "cruising in the right direction", he'll start tapering the immunosuppressants. He's doing so well that our next doc's appointment is in two weeks. That leaves more time for shoveling and getting to know our brand-new-just-in-the-nick-of-time plug-in electric snow blower. Sweet.

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UnknownFebruary 26, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Great news! Keep rockin' it Joe!
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J. Francis McLuggageFebruary 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Turns out there are two buckets in which the docs can test for the presence of my stem cells vs. the donor's. In one bucket, the donor cells are at 100% and in the other, seventy-something. Since what we want is complete takeover by the new guys, this sounds encouraging to me.
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Welcome to Joe's Gathering, where you can get updates on how Joe's doing. Named after the Friday Gatherings which "are a remote, faint echo of the happy hour at the Old Town Tavern that used to take place, it seems like (it was in fact) decades back. There is no agenda, no theme, no structure of any kind, just old (and getting older all the time) Ann Arborites, chatting about food, drink, jobs, and whatever else is going around. There is always a bottle or two of wine on hand, and some folks bring their own. There is usually some kind of food, and again, some people are moved to bring comestibles. Neither is required...Oh, and who the heck are we, anyway? Your hosts, Linda and Joe, that's whom."