Three months down, and it's been an incredibly journey. My life is completely transformed. I have more energy, enthusiasm and drive than ever before. I'm back at work with avengance, and will be resuming a teaching timetable in a few weeks. I'm starting dance training this weekend, and have already been out for more nights out in London for shows, meals, bars/pubs/clubs, etc. than I had for an entire year before.
I've been following the advice of a top-notch sport-and-clinical dietician and have got back in to my gym routine, and have already seen as much difference in the past two weeks as I had in nearly two years of training before my transplant.
Of course, it's not all been plain sailing, but apart from a drug side-effect of some fairly intense acne (causing me to spend a small fortune in Boots on skin-care products) then it's just amazing. I'm back at clinic next week, where I will be on my last 4 weeks of the immunosuppresion drug Tacrolimus (aka Prograf) before I go over to the new drug (Everolimus) only.
To be honest I don't intend to make particularly frequent posts on this blog from now on unless something particularly interesting happens. I'm glad to have been able to share this incredibly experience, and I'm profoundly grateful to everyone who has been keeping up with my story.
From this time on I think the story moves away from me and on to everyone else, such as my extended family's burgeoning brood of kids, my friends' weddings, and so on. For me, the story is now changing to my career, my dancing, and the continuing twists and turns of my relationships!
Signing off, for now, with love,
Dave
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