Day 100

Juvenile coyote in our back yard

We're Home!!!!!!!  We've actually been home for over a week now.  Sorry I haven't updated y'all on that.  Yes, we are back with javelinas, coyotes and rabbits running amok in our neighborhood.  No slugs and seagulls here.  The plants in our yard can defend themselves better than some small countries.  And our tap water is almost 90 degrees.  Yes, that's the cold water.  Toto, we're definitely not in Washington anymore. 

The flowering Saguaro in our front yard
attracted a cactus wren and a dove

Heidi passed her Day 80 tests with flying colors.  Her immune system is more than 93% donor and she had no leukemic cells.  She is still taking ~20 pills every day, but that amount is decreasing.  We still have to pump in magnesium sulfate into her chest port every day.  Actually every other day now.  The decreased tacrolimus dose requires less IV magnesium, but we have this surplus of 36 MEQ MgS, so she is taking it every other day.  Hopefully soon the 10 magnesium pills/day will be sufficient and she will require no IV magnesium.

The drive here was much more relaxing than the drive to Seattle.  Back then we had this ominous weight of unknown severity bearing down.  Four months of SCCA magic later and we are back home and back to normal.  Well, almost normal.  Once the 20 pills and the IV magnesium disappear, we'll call it normal.

Heidi is running a little.  More of a run-walk combination.  Pretty damn good progress, really.  We both signed up for a 1/2 marathon in January.  It's a goal.

Walking home from childcare in Costa Mesa