Post Transplant Day 14

Karl was released from hospital today! We weren’t expecting that he would get out until tomorrow, so it was a very exciting surprise when Dr. Bergstom said he could go after he had another bag of iv potassium. We are relaxing in our St. John’s house now. Karl refuses to call it home since home is Eastport. What an incredible feeling it is to know that it is all behind us...the chemo, the stem cell extraction, the transplant. It will take a while for Karl to totally regain his strength and rebuild his bone marrow, but we have faith that time will take care of that. He will get his potassium from bananas and his phosphates from soft cheesies from here on!

On Saturday Karl has to go into the hospital for blood work, and on Monday he has to go to an appointment at Ambulatory Care for more blood work and various tests. I won’t update the blog until after the appointment on Monday. Until then we are going to totally enjoy our time away from hospital!

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