Day 100
Wow! It’s hard to believe it but it is 100 days since Karl’s stem cell transplant. When I think back, at some times it seems like that was half a lifetime ago. Other times it seems like it was only yesterday. Enough of that. You want to know how Karl is! When people ask me, “How is Karl?”, lately I’ve been saying that he is good. When he got out of hospital back in December he had very little energy. He rarely left the house, and when he did things such as plow the driveway, he usually had to have a nap right after finishing. Thankfully we had very little snow! He also slept a lot back in December and early January. The man who was usually up by 6am was still in bed until after 8am, and he was back there by 8pm, even after having a mid-afternoon nap. Now all that has changed. He is back to his usual sleeping pattern, he rarely has a nap, and he is ‘out and around’. While he isn’t going to fires with the volunteer fire fighters here in Eastport, he goes to all the meetings now and he