Nine months on

I had a clinic today. I feel great, although get tired from things like having 40 or so school children from an inner city area on a trip around the farm for 5 hours. That visit was a real worry when we found out that many of the children would not get a meal when they get home, or would have to cook for their family.

My blood results were normal, ferritin excellent, virusus at a negligible level. 

However my chimerism percentage for CD3 has not gone up, and has gone down slightly to 70%. Because it has not gone up the consultants have decided to ask my donor to have more stem cells harvested and put in the freezer. 

The consultant said that often that acts as a catalyst for the percentage just going up without treatment. Otherwise after a year they would hope to give me one or more topups, like Rosalind had. They did not mention what would happen if no stem cells were forth-coming for what ever reason

Rosalind is very well and looking forward to going to a festival with her children this weekend

My first calving since being attacked

You might remember that 10 months ago I was attacked by an Irish Moiled cow who had just calved. This was a few weeks before my transplant. She was sent off to be bagged up for the freezer some time ago.

Today I went into a field to check on a newly born calf from another Irish Moiled cow. I went in with one of my staff, and an actual staff - just in case. But she happily let us spray the calf's umbilical cord and check its gender - a strong bull calf.

So this was psycholical milestone for me

Roz and I are both well, but a bit tired as we both had busy days last week and then ran a stall at the local village fair.