Day 23

 As hoped, there is very little to report. Jon's main and only complaint is his ongoing struggle with a GI system that was fragile before the transplant and continues to be difficult.  He is still on antibiotics, which cannot help the situation. But he got a good report from his blood test last Friday -- platelets are up to 65 and for the first time in a month, his potassium levels are in the normal range.  All of this can only be good news.

There are no next steps in the near future.  We just wait for the after-effects of the transplant to subside, we try to rest enough to allow for healing, and try to figure out which foods are the best for Jon's digestion.  Things have a bad aftertaste too.  While we may be looking at a new normal, we certainly hope that it does not include a difficult relationship with eating.  That would be way too sad.

We just got about four inches of rain in the last week, so there has been plenty of time for rest and recuperation.  It is still unseasonably chilly and we are all waiting for sunshine and heat to return.  The tomato plants are cold-weather purple right now. We have had a fire in the woodstove for the last few days.  But I have to say, we were impressed by the farmers market shoppers who came to buy lettuce and spinach in the rain and cold this weekend. We are all in this long, slow spring together.

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