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I'm home! I was finally discharged from the hospital yesterday, 19 total days admitted. It was a long stay but necessary for my health. They figure I had a very severe Lupus flare but given everything that had happened to my body in the months leading up to this, it made it more complicated. They still don't have all the answers from my bone marrow biopsy but I have been doing so much better and able to walk on my own without much trouble finally, that they didn't see any reason to continue to keep me while they mull over some of their unanswered questions. They did rule out the very serious, like cancerous cells and what-not so I'm very relieved. My body has changed. I lost a lot of strength while being laid up in a hospital bed. Most days, it was a battle to get up and go to the washroom or even sit up in bed. But this body, the body that felt like it was giving up at one point, the body that has been fighting to get better, the only body I have... It's he...

Happy Canada Day, friends! I hope you all get a chance to get out and enjoy some of the great festivities around the city. Today is day 13 in the hospital. The doctors are getting closer to finding out just what's causing my blood levels to be so low so I'm thankful for that. I've endured some pretty intense procedures. One of them was a bone marrow biopsy where they basically drill (by hand) into your hip bone and extract bone marrow with a syringe. That part of it was certainly uncomfortable but they were able to use local anesthetic to ease the discomfort. The second part of the procedure was not at all fun. They had to take a small core sample of my actual bone. They unfortunately are unable to freeze the bone itself so I felt everything. Apparently, depending on your pain threshold, some people have no issues. I wasn't one of those lucky ones. But it's over, I feel only a little discomfort and they feel that they will have more concrete answers once they get ...