The 31st of October marked 4 years with my second set of gifted lungs!!!! Time has flown SO MUCH! It's unreal. I thought it's time to update the blog a bit.
So health wise everything is good! So far I've still had NO ISSUES with these second lungs. They are beautiful and I love them. I had an outstanding check-up last week. My blood results were all normal, and my kidneys are doing better than they have in years. Not that my kidneys are bad, but 14 years of immunosuppression does take it's toll.
Something that's big for me though... as that as of yesterday, all my immune suppression has been changed... the reason for this is my history with the hysterectomy and abnormal cervical/vaginal cells. So one specific medication, Everolimus or Certican, has the "side-effect" of being very good from a cancer perspective. As well as suppressing your immune system for transplant purposes. So my dose of Certican has been pushed right up, and my Cellcept has come down from 1250mg twice a day, to 500mg twice a day. Neural has halved, from 50mg twice a day to 25mg only. Prednisone stays at 7.5mg. These massive changes make me very nervous! However I've had big changes in the past and my lungs were fine. So I just have to trust that they will be fine now too.
I didn't go big with celebrating this year's lungaversary, but next year will have to be an epic one... 5 years is a milestone!
In very exciting news... On Sunday I'm off to Mauritius with a friend from school! Carli! We booked the tickets in August already, hoping the Covid won't spoil our plans, and it seems like things have worked out for us! Soooooo excited. We're not staying in a resort, will be doing our own thing. Will post pictures!
