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Great stuff guys!
I was thinking any second chemo/transplant ought to be a little less debilitating with starting off early while in good strength.

Fingers crossed on that second treatment Rich, from what KH above is saying, the slump is unlikely to be as bad as the first one 🙂

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I hope you are right Rebecca, my kidneys are at 30%.
I daren’t dream of ten years, it looks possible but with the mean being 5 years I can see the “bookie” perspective and don’t want to get too carried away.
I would consider myself very lucky to get my mobility back for a few years, that would be bliss and it seems quite possible.
Fingers crossed 🙂

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Nice one Sue.
That’s great news.
Plenty of people seem to be digging their way out from similar or worse than I am dealing with so I am nicely back to focusing on the mean of five years with a couple of good mobile years in the middle as a realistic hope 🙂

Sundays are usually pretty bad for me but I’m not quite the zombie I usually am today so maybe I have hit the worst until I get SCT 🙂

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Splendid!
Great stuff David.
Another one to add to my collection of [“Maybe” the Mrs and I will have to put up with taking the mick out each other for “years” yet] 🙂

Humor has seen us both through thick and thin over the years but being afraid/uncertain was draining the humor out of me (very intimidating)
I am back to feeling okay with things and these stories have helped restore the reasonable possibilities of a very worthwhile outcome.

Take it easy guys
Onwards and upwards 🙂
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Cheers Mulberry, that’s another great bit of encouragement!
Me and the Mrs have been trying to keep our expectations reasonable to avoid another devastating blow but this does allow room for me to fixate on the wheelchair and crawling up stairs thinking I am in unusually poor condition.
We had settled on the mean of five years with two or three good playtime years where we can continue to get a bit older and fatter together and continue to make fun of our demise which we are quite good at.
I was losing my grip that on particular hope and perspective.

These stories are a great help to remined me that there is also the risk of us doing quite a bit better than that 🙂

These two folks climbing out of worse is helping keep that door open for me.
Cheers for that guys.

Love Love Love
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Mark

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Nice one Bear.
That sounds like one hell of a climb out of deep trouble for Sheila!
Much heavier than my beginning.
That is great news and inspires some optimism that I may yet see some worthwhile mobility and playtime.
(Love Snowdonia, have done quite a bit of flying those hills in my time)

Well done Sheila!
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Will drop you an email now Shaun.
Cheers

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