BMT + 27

Haem: 82 (same)

White: 1.4 (up 0.2)

Platelets: 25 (up 1)

Neut: 0.4 (yey! Up 0.2)

Weight: 60.1

So I am out of hospital!!

37 days in there, and so happy to be told about 3pm that I could leave today - and there was no hesitation for me to say YES PLEASE!

I certainly didn't expect it to happen today. The dentist came around to see me relatively early and said she thought my neuts had gone up to 0.4, but it wasn't until a bit later that that got confirmed. The nurse also mentioned that she thought she saw the Dr's preparing my exit meds and I think my eyes lit up but she back peddled very quickly, so I didn't really count on anything.

About 3.30pm the Dr's got to me and started the discussion on the possibility of me leaving the hospital, and when I asked ' when are you talking about and they said today - I think I went into a bit of shock! I couldn't really believe it - it came as very much a surprise today!

Went through all the 'rules' of leaving with the BMT Co-ordinator and turning up to clinic on Monday etc and then essentially had to wait until about 5.00pm until all my medications were ready for me and that took about 1/2 hour to go through what I need to do and take - and then it was time to go! The problem was I had collected so much stuff whilst I was there, it took Anth, his Dad and my youngest daughter to carry everything out, so the plan was for them to head off back to the apartment, I would get wheelchaired to the main entrance and wait for them to return.

I got down to the foyer of the hospital and Zoe and Horst were sitting there waiting - apparently Anth had decided to go and get the car - which was probably a good idea. Just walking out to the car, and then up the stairs to the apartment tired me out.

Once I collected my breath, I got to check out the apartment as we are now in one of the Leukemia Foundation Apartments which I hadn't seen and then we sorted out my tablets into my pill box. About 12 tablets for tomorrow morning! But so nice to be detached from the IV and to be able to move around more freely.

So, it certainly was a day that ended very differently to how I thought it would! But a very happy day and happy to be leaving the ward.

I was warned that I probably have a 50/50 chance of ending up back in there - and I really hope I am the 50% that doesn't end up back in the ward!