I just got back from Chicago for my three month 'check up' after my stem cell transplant. I look like a heroin addict.

Hello Officer...no I'm not on drugs, well only prescribed ones...I'm sorry I'm not trying to be cheeky... it's the truth I swear...

Ignore the black and blue track marks!

AND WHOA~!!! I saw some pictures of myself just before I left for Chicago to get that treatment, GOODNESS ~ ! I looked absolutely horrific! I was damn scary, at least I look better now - not much but I'm working on it. I was 200lbs when I left and last time at the doc's I was 164 - I'm happy cause I need new pants!!! My face is so much smaller - I saw that picture and on the one hand I was terrified by the way I looked and on the other hand I was soooo glad I don't look that way now!

I have bruises up and down my arm and some nice big ones on my hands... a little less than a year and I'll be done with all this mumbo jumbo. I can't *ucking WAIT! I stopped take'n a lot'o'pills.
Lovely.