Today I start two anti-rejection drugs. They both have heavy duty side effects that I definitely want to avoid, but since my transplant was a haplo-identical one, meaning related (my mom) but only half matched, my body is naturally going to try to reject my mom's stem cells until they graft and become more "me." These drugs, no matter how bad the side effects, are all that are keeping me alive right now until engraftment happens. I will continue taking them for quite some time afterward as well.
Here are some pictures:
Funny enough, these pills remind me that nature has a way of warning us of poisonous things by coloring them brightly, e.g. Wasps, coral snakes, etc. So these are my little coral snake eggs! Mm mm good!!
I will post later if these drugs affect me quickly.
For now, I leave you with another one of my favorite songs from one of favorite new bands, Flyleaf. They're a Christian band, although you would never know it from the heavy sexual overtones in their music, they constantly evangelize at their concerts, and their music just rocks. This song and a few I will post in the coming days are really inspiring. This song, "Again," I believe is written as if Jesus were speaking to you. I encourage you to take it that way :)
This is a VEVO embed, not Youtube, so let me know if you have trouble getting it to load, VEVO are usually higher quality and take longer to load so you may want to start, then pause to let it load, then play once it's spooled. Also, for those of you who don't watch online videos much, note that hitting fullscreen after it loads forces it to reload all over again at higher resolution, wasting all that time you just waited for the little bar to grow, so be careful... and enjoy!
Flyleaf's own explanation of the song is in this interview below. The explanation gets clear around 2:15 if you don't want to watch the whole thing. Sorry for the embedded commercial.
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