Day +26 is almost over and although I still have a lot of GI problems, for the most part, I feel better. I wake up very, very tired, but that should subside the more blood I make, and also the more real food I'm able to eat. I'm still spending at least 5 hours a day at the hospital, and I'm still taking very upsetting pills three times a day (plus all the others which aren't quite as harsh but still weigh me down). At the beginning of next week I will have another bone marrow biopsy where they will not only check my marrow for bad stuff, but they can actually determine how well my grafting went just by looking at the slides. Twenty-first century medicine is truly amazing. Let's just hope and pray that the graft itself is just as amazing as those fancy techniques.
I suppose that one of the most frustrating things of this process has been that I just can't seem to sit down and focus on my studies. I'm always too tired to read for any extended period of time, but when I lay down I just can't seem to sleep for more than two or three hours at a time. This keeps me perpetually tired yet seemingly always awake. The nurses say this too will pass, and I know that all of this is temporary. I wonder how long it will be before I can go back to getting my leisure-size (my version of exercise) on the pool table. I am eager to see how rusty my skills have gotten and how much work its going to take to oil up the ol' arm before I am running tables again. Of course, the doctor has to tell me that I'm okay to breathe public air again, or I have to wait until I'm healthy enough to go home and practice on my own table.
Even though I have no energy, and no ability to focus on my language studies, I have decided to add Egyptian to the list of things I would like to learn in the next few years. I don't believe it will be all that difficult, just lists and lists of things to memorize, but that has always been one of my strong suits. I can't write computer programs, but I can analyze and memorize like nobody else. And who knows? Maybe in the next year or two I'll pick up computer programming as well. I hear C# (C 'sharp,' the new C++) is the next new thing in the programming world and as soon as I get a few of my basics checked off I'll add this to my list of goals.
Oh yeah, and I want a puppy and a kitty, when the time is right, of course....
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