Hi Kevin -- Autumn is here and because we have had a few cold nights the deciduous trees are actually gaining colour -- red, yellow, and orange leaves -- they look lovely especially as we have been in drought conditions for so long and everything is either pale yellow or brown -- these tress are bright sparks of colour on the skyline -- absolutely beautiful! We haven't started taking pictures, but hopefully in the next couple of days we will find some time!!
Please listen to your body!! If you are feeling so tired -- LISTEN -- and rest!! I have had to completely change my lifestyle in order to stay healthy by resting most of the day and being 'active' for four hours. If I try for more then I get sick -- it has been a very hard lessen to learn! But you are on the road to recovery, and if you are tired as a result of the transplant it is just your body trying to recouver to its normal state, so you must give it time by resting -- you are not weak, not going to waste away because you are not walking continuously around the hospital, etc! It will only be for a short while and I'm betting that you will feel less tired as the days go by, but if you push it and try to make yourself keep active you will risk becoming ill. My experience has shown just how suseptable I am to any bug thats going around -- especially when I try for being active for just an hour or two more. It doesn't happen immediately so I think I'm OK, but within days I do go down. This usually happens when my daughter comes with our youngest grandson -- I can't help picking him up, playing with him, taking them out and showing them off, the full gamut of being a loving grandparent -- but both of the last two visits have ended up with me in hospital! Once with pneumonia and the second time with three kidney stones. She is due to visit again in the last week of April, and though I am really looking forward to her coming, I'm also afraid of what is going to happen. I will do everything I can do avoid going 'down', but .....!! So, please take note and get the rest that your body is asking for -- you will have plenty of time to be active when the transplant is complete and everything has settled down!!
And as for rolling around naked in the cool earth -- Go for it!! What a way to celebrate the start of spring!! I may consider trying the same thing in a big pile of autumn leaves!! Best wishes, Cath