{"id":654,"date":"2022-08-31T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedsproutblossom.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T00:01:14","slug":"post-hsct-month-6-musings-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedsproutblossom.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Post HSCT – Month 6 Musings & Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dinner
We are lucky to live near one of my HSCT cohort patients and his wife – Bob & Kandace. We got together for dinner a few weeks ago, so sweet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am way behind my own arbitrary schedule for writing this blog post. I am now six months post treatment, six months through the roller coaster first year. This is the middle of the tunnel, the part of just getting through it. I think that’s why this has been so hard to write. There is no new news, no big breakthroughs, no major changes, nothing sexy to talk about.<\/p>\n

My original goal was to do a post every two weeks. One post that was musings (thoughts on this HSCT journey) and one that was a detailing of symptoms. So, I’m conflating the two into one this month.<\/p>\n

Legs and walking:<\/strong> I hear a vinyl record skipping over a scratch in the grooves, playing the same lyric over and over.\u00a0 That lyric is spasticity, and it is getting as old for me as I imagine it is for you, the reader. \u00a0The spasticity in my right leg continues to be intense and difficult to describe. My massage therapist is trying to identify which specific muscles are the biggest complainers, the biggest overreactive players. \u00a0To me it feels like a chain reaction that starts in the upper thigh, crosses my knee, continues down my calf and echoes all the way through my foot. \u00a0The muscles system itself doesn\u2019t work that way, but my physical therapist has explained that there is a neurological chain that does map to my experience.<\/p>\n