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"Here&amp;#x27;s the latest--and greatest--from our favorite guest blogger, Lea. Today is a hugely special day for her and I&amp;#x27;m so glad we could all share it. A quick P.S. from the &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a small world&amp;quot; file: I ran into two of Lea&amp;#x27;s best friends at Casino Night Saturday! They recognized me from the blog and introduced themselves. Hi Jill, Hi Jen! It was great to meet you! They were actually the first ones to tell me that Lea was heading home today. And here&amp;#x27;s Lea herself to give us all the details. Congrats Lea (and happy St. Patty&amp;#x27;s Day, everyone!) --Erin Hi everyone! It&amp;#x27;s Lea checking in (and out) from Seattle where, as you know, I underwent a bone marrow transplant back in December. It has been four months since we arrived here and I am almost 100 days post transplant! There have been some good days of recovery and some not so great days mixed in there too. But, we received the best news in the world--I am cancer free! They ran all the tests they could possibly run to find the cancer and they can&amp;#x27;t find it! There is no guarantee that I am out of the woods or will always remain cancer free, but I am today! You see, before now I was the survivor who never responded to any of the amazing drugs that other CML patients respond to. I was always the one who &amp;quot;failed drug therapy&amp;quot; or had &amp;quot;sub optimal responses.&amp;quot; So it&amp;#x27;s very new and tough for me to me to say I had cancer (in the past tense). The recovery from an unrelated full transplant takes a long time and things will definitely be different when I get home. Because I&amp;#x27;m on so many immuno suppression drugs (40 pills a day!) I&amp;#x27;m not allowed to go back to the school where I taught 6th grade until I am one-year post transplant or tapered off those drugs. But the awesome thing is--I am cancer free! I am so grateful and appreciative. Erin first wrote about my journey back in August when I was desperate to even find a donor. Well, a bit more than six months later I return home with one less thing than I left with--CML! There are many more people out there with stories like mine who are DESPERATE for a bone marrow transplant. If you are interested in becoming a donor please go to: www.marrow.org. I want to thank you all for your continued support and prayers and kind words. I will keep you posted on how my &amp;quot;new normal&amp;quot; life is going. --Lea"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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