Wednesday, July 9, 2014

I Can't Really Feel My Nose

We are in CHI-Land!

And I have felt the power of the great firewall of China, which banned most of our pleasure-inducing websites...including blogger. Nice. Anyway. Someone is posting this for me from the land of freedom.

So the transplant was done and dusted on Tuesday, 17th of June 2014. Fun times....Not really. Everyone keep in asking me if I'll get jabbed with massive needles on my bones. Thankfully, that did not happen. They are using something called stem cell allogeneic transplant instead of the old method: inserting SIXTEEN needles on my lower back. Thank you Jesus for technology!

 So what they did is simply giving me five days shot of GSCF (growth hormones to make my bone marrow bloom and overflow in my bloodstream) and then they collect it like a dialysis: blood come out from my left arm, go to a fancy machine that took my extra stem cells away and then back in on my right hand.

 I didn't know what to expect, but I have always been the tough one so I thought: Men. How bad can it be?

 It was bad. The first day I was nauseous and my whole body went numb. Like from head to toe. Pin and needles. Oh yeah.

I walk funny, like one foot in front of another slowly. Like a very cute baboon. And I trip, a lot. My soft motor skill goes out of the window. You should see me trying to put a key in a keyhole. Even a two year old can do that.

 So, long story short. Day two and three was okay. A couple of mood swings, nothing out of the ordinary. They put my stem cell in Andrew, and et voila! Now finger crossed my stem cell log themselves in and start producing some good juices. There you go for now ;)

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