I'm Home!!

These photos are of my "first" hospital room. Less and less went back with me each time I was admitted. Lindsay made that flowers out of different materials there were soooooooo cute!!!
My cute daughters were in charge of room decorations.

After being away from my home for 4 months, I am home!!

I was welcomed to Paradise by a bright green poster hung up saying, Welcome Home Linda. As I approached my home I saw a group of kids.....I LOVE KIDS...and adults, holding a sign saying, We Love Linda. There were yellow ribbons tied in some of our trees. What a welcome home. Thanks to all who did that. When I went in the house Becky had put up a colorful sign, Welcome Home.

I came home to a clean house. My dear friends, step mom and Relief Society presidency cleaned all the dust and dirt out of my home to make it safe for me. I now have no secrets. :)
Actually I never did before. I am still learning how to serve from the examples of wonderful people in my life. I continue to recieve cards of encouragement. I even received a quilt that had notes of encouragement written on it by my friends in our ward.

Lindsay had flown in from Denver for 4 days so she drove me home. I have to admit that it was kind of scary the first couple of nights. As I do, I don't do anything normal or boring. The doctors has restarted me on 2 meds that I had preciously been on and stopped. I had only taken them for 2 days. We found out pretty quick that I was terribly allergic to one medicine. This is the medicine that they wanted me on for a whole year that protects me from viruses. I "blossomed" with a rash what made me look like I had a sunburn and itched terribly. Then in the middle of the first night home I woke up feeling extremely sick. Sweaty, shaky, nauseated and just plain sick. I woke Lindsay up and she checked my blood pressure. It was 65/47. It is amazing I was even able to walk to the bedroom to wake her. We called Salt Lake BMT and the Physician Assistant told us to hang a liter of normal saline and run it in quickly. If I didn't improve I was to go to Logan Hospital and tell them to contact the BMT doctors ASAP We hung the fluid and said a quick prayer. Lindsay slept on the floor of my bedroom while the fluid ran in. I did better. But the events scared me for a day or two.

I feel better. I am still on very very low energy but I see it slightly improve each day.

It was good that I felt better because my step mom was going to come and stay and help me and she ended up having emergency surgery for a bowel obstruction last night. I am doing fine on my own.. I have food in the fridge I can heat up. My main problem is energy.... I have been told to think about where I was and where I am. I think back to those dreary days in the hospital and I am so grateful to be ALIVE, well and at my own home and surrounded by people I love.

I am going to post some pictures since that is really what makes a blog interesting. There are a variety of times covered, pre transplant, post transplant and home. I will also include some more of my favorite staff. These gals were night shift people who changed my life. When I saw that they were on, I knew I was ok. They were so cheerful. I apologize that I don't know how to really post picture and then write about them. Sorry.