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42. A bit nervous, but that always happens when something out of the norm ...

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Thu Sep 4, 2014, 11:58 PM

Sep 2014

comes into play.

My sister, who lives in the UK, arranged for a flight to visit them and then have a holiday in a resort town in Turkey to celebrate a birthday. After a wedding this weekend my husband has come down with a cold, all other colds (or something) have lasted several weeks.

When you pass a certain milestone after transplant the doc says that each adventure has to be weighed as a risk versus reward scenario and you have to make that decision yourself.

It is not always easy to make these decisions .... hate going into this trip with a compromised immune system.

All that being said, I am happy to have to such a dilemma and a wonderful sister... still nervous and we'll see if we make the flight.

Fingers crossed!

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