Hi Arlene
I am 55 years young8-) and had my Stem Cell Transplant on the 3rd December 2009 (yep today my stems are a year old:-D ) and am doing great.
I had no problem deciding to go ahead with the Transplant, and at this moment feel it was the best decision I made EVER 😀
Like your dad my job was heavy work so i could not go back to it 🙁 but my Boss gave me a job which was light dutie's:-D and now I do 10 hour shifts (light dutie's) but when the light work ends i know i will have to pack in the job:-S but if they let me do it for 10 years then I can retire:-D
But hey one day at a time ha ha
Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xx