Hard to believe, but my stem cell transplant was two years ago today

Wow. Still don’t undersand why they call it an autologous stem cell transplant, when I’m only getting back my own stem cells, but they do. Here’s the posting I put up that night,Tom Faranda’s Folly: Transplant went well

And here’s a picture. With hindsight, I don’t exactly look my best. The guy on the left is a resident, doing the infusion (done in the hospital room), and a nurse practitioner is on the right. The whole thing only took about thirty minutes, from unfreezing the cells to injecting them. Of course then I had a big nap, since I’d been given a mild sedative. Brigid made some joke about how nice it was to be in the room for a couple of hours with me, but it being very quiet. Haha.