Well it has been two years… and what a two years it has been. So many things have changed and so much has happened - it has been a real interesting journey. I am well on the way to completing my secret plan of being the first fully rebuilt human. With new or improved blood, skin, eyes, intestines, feet, hands, toenails and soon hips. All and all, things are going OK and I am trying to learn to live and work with the new me. My days of playing hard might be behind me but a part of me is just not able to let that go. I will be attending this year’s 24 hours in Old Pueblo mountain bike race as a spectator for the first time this weekend and it going to be hard. I so badly what to be the old me and to be excited and anxious for the adrenalin filled ride. There are few things like riding a bike at 18+ miles an hour through the dessert in the black dark of night - it’s a whole different perspective. My condition still can improve as the doctors and I now work with the new me. As I mentioned, I will have my hips replaced soon (left one in March, and right sometime in June) we are looking to have plastic surgery on my left eye to help allow me to fully close it and I am going to try to start some physical therapy or strength training soon. So the final verdict is not in yet, I am definitely not where I want to be as far my abilities but, all and all, things are OK. Let’s hope next year I will be able to ride the bike course if not race and maybe build back to some greater resemblance for my old self. For now, I have to remember to try and be patient and maybe not so hopeful, as a fellow transplant patient put it I need to be looking “forward together forward”.
That's it, that’s my two year update. THANK you all for being there for me and Karen over the past 2 years. We really do appreciate everything everyone has done for us. As things happen from time to time, I will try to update this blog as a record for me and you all as well - just to let you know how life is going.
Take care everyone!
Tony
