Launch, your friend had way more foresight than me!! Though I think it's going to be kinda fun to match my hair to my outfits every day!
I had another outpatient appointment yesterday. My Hb fell 0.1 point and my WBC and neutrophils fell slightly again to the 1.5-2.0 range of things, but the real star were my platelets, which jumped up AGAIN to the dizzying heights of 173!!! That's in the "normal" range, woohoo!! I've never seen them so high, and the nurses are thrilled.
But with all that good news, I had a real downer yesterday, too, talking to a guy in the outpatient waiting area who had his BMT one week before mine, and also had a really easy time of things inside and got released after three weeks. But he's taking public transport and going into crowds without masks, eating whatever he wants and not doing his mouthcare regime, being best man at a wedding next week(!!) and saying he'd do anything to not go back into hospital because he hated the food so much. Oh, and he wants to go back to work ASAP. He basically just had the attitude of "oh I feel great I must be invincible". Hearing this so soon after Rob's sister's words of warning, I had to tell him how reckless he was being, but he just shrugged me off. I really, really hope he continues to do well, but the odds are not in his favour, and the whole conversation just left me feeling so sad that he's gone through so much to just throw it all away now... Especially since he mentioned he has little kids (he seemed to be about my age, late 20s/early 30s). What a waste.