and as a result her transplant procedure is now complete. She will have one more appointment with the transplant practice at Day 100 early next year, but she has no further medical restrictions at this time.
She has come a long way since her cancer was first discovered on January 27.
She is not cured, because this kind of blood cancer remains in the body, but she is in full remission, and now medically recovered from her autologous stem cell transplant.
That was the good news today, although she is not yet ready to return to work. She has not gotten the exercise she needs and does not yet feel strong enough to return to work. That will come soon enough, certainly by after Thanksgiving, but there has been real progress.
Her appetite is beginning to come back. The past two nights I made her pasta with sauce. Today she had part of her favorite sandwich from the Italian Store, a local landmark in Arlington across the street from where we lived when we moved to Arlington 31 years ago.
But the best news can be seen here:
Yesterday I drove Leaves and the woman who has been her care-giver / companion during the day to a wig shop about ten miles away (having another woman with whom she has grown
