Taking One Step at a Time

I think in my last post I hadn't done the Light the Night walk yet. November 1st a group of us from work participated in the Light the Night walk which supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It was such an amazing night. We had several patients show up for the walk along with a ton of other survivors and their family and friends. At the walk, there was a booth set up for people that wanted to get on the bone marrow registry. I didn't know how easy it was to get on the registry. I had always thought that it was some big painful invasive procedure so I never wanted to do it. I found out that all it takes to get on the registry is a simple cheek swab. It was so neat to see how many people were swabbing their cheeks to get on the registry. It was neat for me because I see everyday at work how much this changes people's lives. Here are a couple of pictures from the walk.



After the walk we went to a Halloween party thrown by one of our doctors. Here is a picture from the party.


Mary, Brenda, Me, Sandy "Gang Green"

I've been walking my butt off trying to get ready for this 1/2 marathon that I'm doing on December 14th. I think I may have mentioned that a group of us from work and several patients of ours are going to walk a half marathon in Dallas next month. We are doing the White Rock Marathon. Our team name is the Transplant Trotters. I'm really looking forward to doing this. Planning to do this walk next month has been such a good motivator for me to get up and exercise. I'm finding I have so much more energy on my days off when I walk than when I don't. I'm surprised at how far I'm going and how good I feel afterwards.

Work is going well. I did another stem cell transplant this week which went smoothly. This was only the 2nd one I have done so I was a little nervous at first, but my patient did well and I was feeling more confident by the end of it.

Well, that's it for now. Hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to coming to TN for a visit after Christmas. Only one more month.