The selfish reasons I'm going to do this are I'm going in for a bone marrow transplant in a couple days and I'm certain writing some thoughts, feelings, complaints anything really will help me reflect and keep things in perspective and I'm sure I'll be bored couped up in the hospital. I've read the blogs of other people who have successfully been through what I am about to go through and it seems to be therapeutic. Second while I could write privately in a journal (what fun is that) it will prevent me from having to say the same thing over again to different people. Not that I don't appreciate peoples genuine concern for me but you get the point. Not so selfishly it can be a place people get updates since I don't subscribe to Facebook ... But that's another story. Last and maybe a secondary motive is maybe someone else going through similar experience or some trying time in life will be able to take something from this. I say secondary because I know my focus needs to be on me for the next while as I get through this uphill portion of life before I can spend too much energy giving back to others.
More than likely this will turn into a rambling mess of poor grammer and spelling (has that already started?) But hey its the internet anything goes and I'm not getting graded on this. I'll have to look into disabling the comment section. This is my blog on the internet and anything goes so you may want to stop reading now Mom...and the rest of the family... Maybe this was a bad idea ... Oh well can't get any worse than my brother's Facebook updates can it?
Historically I've been terrible staying in contact with people so maybe this will help take a step in the right direction ... Although depending what I write it could go the other way too I suppose. This is getting fun already. Screw it lets have a laugh. I was going to title it wet dreams ... Refering to the night sweats I was having when I was first diagnosed (obviously) but I figured it was already taken and it may attract the wrong crowd over to read this. The diagnosis was ALL Philadelphia positive which maybe I'll write about if I feel like it. One thing I won't write too much about or be liable for is anything about medical details because I'm not a doctor or nurse nor do I have any desire to. OK I've wrote enough for now ... You get the idea.
