Freedom - Do you know how hard it is to get checked out of a hospital some times

Today was my day 13 for my third transplant and yesterday Dr. Gouw (corrected spelling) had indicated that baring any problems from me that I should be cleared to get out of the hospital today.  I just spent some time looking at my June-July blogs from 2011 and see that it was also my day 13 when they booted me out of the hospital last time.  The old blogs talk about some AC problems and I alluded to it might have had some thing to do with it, but never the less, I got out today, I'll get back to today in a few lines. The last endtry was on Oct. 27, my day 10, that was not a pleasant day, but I guess all the pain from the stem cells engrafting that day and the following day or two lead to the possibility of me getting out today, so I need to bite the bullet so to speak and be grateful that they engrafted with a purpose because over the next couple of days, Dr. Gouw was very amazed at how quickly all my numbers went up rapidly, I think the last actual numbers that he shared with me yesterday gave me more white blood cells than I have had in over 4 years, I'm pretty sure that number will go down after I go through the day 100 tests and Dr. Te and Dr. Petersen make the determinations as to my maintenance program, but until then, I am going to enjoy actually having some kind of immune system to fight off problems - even though it is kind of a virgin one that doesn't have any built in fight against most if not all childhood sicknesses, that will also have to wait until after Day 100.

So I must have been like a kid waiting for Christmas morning last night, because I didn't sleep hardly at all, I finally got a little sleep after I quit fighting it and watched about half of the 2nd Hunger Games movie at about 3:00 this morning, which reminds me, I need to finish that move, maybe after posting this blog.  When I woke up this morning, I started cleaning up my stuff and packing my bags with everything in anticipation of getting set free.  It was after 4:00 pm before I left the hospital because of several things, but mostly because of the fact that I was alone, I probably could have sped that up by 2-3 hours if I had taken Cara's offer to have Tyler come up to the hospital and make believe he was going to stay with me until Matt came tomorrow, but I didn't so that is a good reason why it took so long - by the way, I think I have failed to thank Bruce and Cara for them coming up last weekend and visiting and helping me, it was very nice and I really do appreciate it.

So, I'll write in a couple of days after my out patient trips to the clinic give me some kind of idea as to when they'll take the line out and send me south.  Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers I really appreciate them.  Until next time,