My platelets were at 10,000 this morning! All I’m going to say is that plans are in the works but I’m not going to say anymore because I don’t want to jinx anything. The boost in my platelets obviously helped boost my mood a little. I also had a really nice visit with Matt and my dad today. And, I actually finished reading “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” a book I started reading three years ago. I think I said this before, but finishing that book was on a New Year’s resolution list from two years ago so I am feeling quite accomplished right now! After that I took care of lots of little odds and ends I have been working on and then jumped right into a book called “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee” that Robyn gave me (thank you Robyn!). I am nearly a quarter of the way through it already, that’s how much I am enjoying it. The book is written by a child psychologist who discusses how to raise self-reliant children. I’m not sure I’ll have this finished by the time I go home, but I will plan to finish it once I get there.

Overall, I’m a little less anxious today. Of course the platelets have helped, but I’ve also been doing a lot of visualization and re-listening to “The Secret” on my iPod. Additionally, I think it helped to have visitors today who reminded me that worrying is a waste of time. Everything is pointing in the right direction right now and my body is doing the hard work it is supposed to do. The best I can do is to try to stay healthy and take the right precautions so as not to end up back in here. The rest is left to fate which, I would like to believe and hope, is working for me.