Time with family and friends

Here I am enjoying some fresh air

My beautiful niece Natalie

Michael, Emily and Kaytee

Auntie Lyndsay with her favorite niece and

nephew outside Macaroni Grill

Mom, Me, Dad, Natalie and Michael

This was a good weekend filled with friends, family, fresh air and good food. This was also the last weekend before I get admitted in the hospital for my transplant. Friday one of my aunts and some friends came by to visit. I had an appointment at the infusion center but luckily I did not need any replacements. I also got the great news that my bone marrow biopsy that I had a week ago came back clean again. I was very happy about that, it just seems that everything is lining up nicely now. After my appointment was over we went and had a good lunch together and then did some shopping. We later came back to the apartment and had some good catching up time and watched What Not to Wear. For some reason I have really come to love that show, I defiantly have been learning a lot about fashion that I didn't know before. It's entertaining if not anything else.

Saturday was a kind of lazy day around the house. I did some things that I needed to get done and talked on the phone quite a bit. I was a able to talk with several of the staff up at MWSB in Montana. They all decided to call me on the same day and didn't know the others had called me already. By the fourth phone call I was thinking, "wow did they plan this or something"? Honestly I just think it is because they were all taking off for the week long backpacking trip this weekend. Yeah, I am pretty sure that was the reason. Nonetheless I thoroughly enjoyed my conversations with everyone. I miss them all so much, it is good when I can hear their voices every once in a while.

Then today my Mom, Dad and I drove out to my brother and sister-in-law's house to visit with them and the kids. We hadn't seen them in a while so decided it was way past time to make a trip out there. So we spent the afternoon there playing with the kids and then went out to Macaroni Grill for dinner. A lot of Jaimie's family came along, so all in all there were 14 of us at dinner. It was a party! We all enjoyed some good food and some good time together. It was nice to be able to see everyone again.

So I think that I really did enjoy my last weekend of freedom for a while. It is strange for me to think of how restricted I am going to have to be come a week from now. My life is going to change even more drastically than it already has. Tomorrow I head to the hospital to have another central line put back in my chest for transplant and to get the picc line in my arm removed. So it starts the week of craziness! Lots of appointments and lots to do at home before I go to the hospital for transplant. I just hope I can get it all done.