Day +1: Conditioning and Transplant done

Been a bit of a while since my last update, the conditioning all went alright. The weekend of chemotherapy last weekend went pretty well, all the Cyclophosphamide went down a lot better than it normally does, I didn't feel sick at all really. The Campath gave me a rash but it just meant more piriton which was fine. The monday after I went back to the apartment I still felt okay but when I had a pretty rough nights sleep sweating out all the drug's I'd had so I felt rubbish the next day. The TBI was Tuesday to Friday, it was pretty straightforward. It's a pretty weird experience all in all, first you strip down to your underwear then they put this sort of string vest thing over your torso and another around your neck. Then they fit the wax head mould that they made a few weeks before. They put some sensors inside the vest and on your head to monitor the radiation levels and then I lay down on a bed and... that's about it really. They come in and move me around sometimes but its just 8 beams of radiation, takes about 20 minutes. So with that done last night was the transplant, it was a bit of an anti-climax but I enjoyed myself seeing as I was high as a kite on pethadin and piriton. An hour or so of stem cells then it was all done, now I'm in isolation for the next few weeks! Spent my day just watching a whole Series of Only Fools and Horses and disney films :p