How a stem cell transplant for MS is keeping me on my feet

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bridget snell

Jul 23, 20205 min read

There are no before photos here

I said I would tell you how I'm faring with this new way of eating for my disease. I can report two truths

bridget snell

May 26, 20202 min read

Clown suits are scary

Two years out and how are you?

bridget snell

May 14, 20203 min read

Dandelion crowns over capes anyway

I decided to ask about the performance of my work pre-HSCT vs today

bridget snell

Dec 6, 20193 min read

We shall call it 'bethink and drink'

I'm stuck on memory issues this week. I don't know why. Or maybe I just don't remember what started it.

bridget snell

Nov 13, 20194 min read

Thanks, Stephanie Walker

Day +578 Recently I discovered that it’s okay for me not to be okay with this disease. [Whaaaat? Is she having one of those...

bridget snell

Sep 9, 20193 min read

No. 492

I learned a few lessons last weekend. They were pretty profound.

bridget snell

Aug 10, 20192 min read

It's not a competition

I've gone and done it again. This time, I got my sister involved.

bridget snell

May 30, 20192 min read

Bob and weave

I had a wine-with-a-black-coffee-chaser kind of morning.

bridget snell

Mar 27, 20192 min read

Hand me my Ticonderoga

There are few days on my calendar that are written in pen. An average day is fluid and a pencil is the wisest tool. But today was blank...

bridget snell

Mar 11, 20193 min read

One non blonde

Day +330 I realized this morning that It's been a year since I launched this blog. That means you've heard just about enough to speak...

bridget snell

Feb 14, 20193 min read

I need Joel Schumacher

Day +305 It's been 305 days since transplant, 116 days since my first glass of wine, 116 days since my first haircut, 53 days since my...

bridget snell

Oct 3, 20183 min read

I'll just never be ready for Disney

Day +171 It's almost time. My 6-month post-transplant MRI is in three weeks. This MRI isn't a tell-all. It's not giving a pass/fail to...

bridget snell

Aug 30, 20182 min read

I have stores of number 2 cards

Day +137 Yesterday was the first day of school for both girls. I have posted the obligatory first-day-back pictures. I have [honestly]...

bridget snell

Aug 18, 20182 min read

Thanks, Billy

Day +125 and positive it is. If this were a stage show, I'd cue the music "ain't no mountain high enough" and put up a big-screen photo...

bridget snell

Jun 7, 20182 min read

I am not Aaron Sorkin's demographic

rangry \răŋ-grē\ Having run, with anger. I'm approaching the three month mark. It's actually been 82 days since my transplant, 71 days...

bridget snell

Jun 7, 20182 min read

I'm easy to find in a crowd

I put a picture of my follicle-y challenged head up on my social media page with hashtag #HSCTlooksgoodonme (I have just one social media...

bridget snell

May 17, 20183 min read

I am not 20

It's 32 days since my transplant. I've been home for 3 weeks. I've rested for a couple of those. Kind of. I've been to baseball games,...

bridget snell

May 7, 20183 min read

Non linear. Thanks.

While you are staring studying my new Mr. Magoo/academic Dr. Evil image, you'll quickly notice that the remaining small patch of hair on...

bridget snell

Apr 24, 20183 min read

Don't call it a comeback

As of yesterday, we're out of severe neutropenia! We are out of the land of do-not-do-this-and-do-not-eat-that! This doesn't mean we can...

bridget snell

Apr 22, 20182 min read

Nothing Rhymes with Neutropenia

I've had the most boring of days these past few. Just laying around all day, consuming calories, multiplying cells, growing an immune...

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