And you light up my life .....You give me hope, to carry on. ..... You light up my days .....And fill my nights with song......You, You light up my life ..... You give me hope to carry on

Thursday 6th September 2012 - 11:59pm - Tomorrow is the day I get to find out if I'll be released from hospital and Dr Brad and say "cya" for at least (I hope) 10 years !! I have my appointment in 9 hours to be precise. I had my Zometa infusion on Tuesday and it all went easily enough. Nothing to it. Quick jab in the wrist, infusion in, flush out and I was out of there in 20 mins. Except I saw a friend who was just starting his transplant so stopped for a chat. We started off together and harvested the same day, but he has only just started his transplant now. If all goes as well as mine, he'll be feeling good in about 2-3weeks.
It's been a busy week. Getting back into stuff. I've been into work to talk to MD & CEO about returning to work. Not yet, but will be bored shitless soon enough and wanting to start some work stuff, so we discussed these options. Also doing wedding stuff - I'm getting some flashes of bridezilla already !! We've been working on the invites and I've been looking for the bridesmaid dresses. I won't say too much though as don't want to give any surprises away. But it's been ...... well, lets just say, it's been. And leave it at that !!
Actually, I'm too tired to finish now, so am going to sleep and will finish tomorrow after seeing the Dr. Hopefully will have more to add.......

My Beautiful New Niece

Friday 7th September 2012 - 09:26am (AWST)  NEWS !!  I am officially in remission !! YAY
Friday 7th September 2012 - 02:26am (BST) NEWS !! Isobel Emily Austin born !! I'm an aunty again YAY !!

What a day .... totes amaze-balls (told you I'd get that in my blog Callie ;-) so excited, and couldn't be happier.
So just to re-cap, I had my appointment this morning. We were a bit late as there was a crash on the way in, so we had to detour. Instead of 9am we ended up seeing Dr Brad at 0922 (I know because I had my phone out when he called me in) after a quick hello and chat about Carlton (he's also a CFC supporter)  he asked me about being in remission..... I told him I was waiting for him to tell me I was in remission..... and that's when he said "Vicky you are in complete remission" !! I was beaming and so was Dirk and so was Dr Brad !! He was really pleased with all my results. Kappa results were back to normal. D+36 !! All done and dusted - thank you very much - thanks for coming. All I have to do now is have a bone marrow aspiration (biopsy) in four weeks to confirm everything is back to normal.
After seeing Dr Brad we went to see a friend that I had met during treatment who is four weeks behind me and has had his transplant this week. He lives in the country so has had to check into hospital for the entire transplant time. We went to the ward to say hello and hopefully bring a smile to his day. He seemed to be going really well, which was great.

Champers? - probs, defs, totes !!

And at this point I got my message to say I was an aunty again. Well !! ..... you couldn't wipe the smile off my face at this point. Talk about happy. Tears welled up in my eyes as I thought about my family. After everything that has happened this year, this was the happiest moment we'd had in a very long time..... and I cried with happiness. Isobel Emily Austin is going to be the lucky little angel in our family.
Dirk and I took off from the hospital, put the lid down on the car and headed for the beach. It was a beautiful day and we intended to celebrate. We headed for Scarborough beach and went for brunch. Coffee first then as I flipped over the menu to peruse the drinks, I noticed they served bucks fizz !! Perfect !! It was time to celebrate.
We then headed up the coast and just cruised around for the day.

Beautiful Happy Day ....

Today has been a very happy day......

For anyone interested we'll be talking part in the "Leukemia Foundation - Light the Night" on 26th September 2012 if you're in Perth, come join us for the walk.