"Take the long way home" Supetramp

But still they lead me back

To the long winding road

You left me standing here

A long long time ago

Dont leave me waiting here

Lead me to your door

The Beatles

Good news. Infact, fantastic news. Engraftment is progressing. Slowly, but surely in the right direction. Go donor, go!

At day 30+ , my neutrophils are 28% donor, my monos 40%,  and my B cells 34% . Those were all 0% donor 2 weeks ago. The T cells have stay roughly stable going from 66% to 62% donor, not a significant move.

What this means is that it will be a long winding road to full engraftment. It also means that I can not rely on any table or article or another's experience to map out my mileposts. I am on my own path. I am movin' and a' groovin' at my own downtempo pace. Those guidelines are not based on my gentle conditioning and my resilient bone marrow. I may be listening to a different drummer, but believe you me, I am steadily marching to the promised land of good health with no CLL. I may take my own sweet time getting there, but the inevitable bumps are much gentler when you going slow. I remember also that there may be less GVH with this mixed chimerism. 

I can live with this. I can live a very long time with this. Did not the tortoise win the race?