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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Day 77: Type A Personality

It must be part of her Type A personality. The tendency to want to be exact and precise. Even when it comes to her health and recovery. The doctors have told Mom  that she would be under careful observation for the first three months. The words THREE MONTHS have been burning in Mom's mind since the day she got out of surgery. Even though we tell Mom it's an estimation and that we should take as much precautions as possible to ensure a solid recovery, Mom keeps insisting she will not need us after THREE MONTHS. She insists that she will be okay and we can continue with work and our personal life. I'm sure Mom just wants to be more independent and wants us to go on with our normal lives. Or it may be that she's tired of us critiquing her food choices ("That's too high in potassium!" "That's a high carb!" "Seafood Ranch, again, Mom!"), poking and pricking her with daily blood tests, or inadvertently poisoning her with our lackluster cooking. 

Because of her strong determination and will to make that benchmark, she has been doing really well. I almost forget for a second that she didn't have her transplant when I see her cooking, washing clothes, and  reading her Kindle. She even made me breakfast today: rice, corned beef hash, scrambled egg, coffee. I felt a little bad that she was serving me, but relished in the moment of Mom's normalcy. 

Good news from her last clinic visit is that we no longer have to prick and prod her with needles anymore. Her blood sugar levels have gone back to normal levels. Her immunosuppressant (medications to suppress her immune system) prescriptions are adjusted every couple days. Doctors are still trying to find the perfect recipe of medications that will keep Mom stable. At this time, her white blood count is lower than normal, and she is susceptible to illness, so we are advising that Mom keep the social events to a bare minimum. We'll find out more tomorrow when she goes to her regular clinic visit at UCLA.

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