Picking up the pieces and moving forward
It's today!! 17 March - 6 month post-transplant mark!! N othing particularly magical happens on this day, but it's just that she Emma has now been off immunosuppression medication for 3 months, meaning her new immune system should be able to handle basic challenges (viruses etc...). She may get hit harder and take longer to recover from common illnesses and she is still very vulnerable as she (ie. the new immune system) does not have any routine immunizations yet (she will start to get reimmunized at the 1 year post-transplant mark). Emma is energetic (relatively speaking, compared with where she has been over the last year), walking Alex to school every day and working on a hobby horse track in the yard. Otherwise, creating complex and architecturally intricate houses and villages in Minecraft while binge watching shows (things like Anne with an E - angsty and beautiful; now on to our second time watching Young Sheldon and Big Bang Theory). She is also coming along with the in