Germs...friend or foe??

After 5 years, one often tends to forget all those precautions you were told pre and post transplant about germs and their effects on your non-immune system.  I was talking with an adorable ten year old today about being at the lake, fishing, swimming, etc. when it all came crashing back.  No playing in the lake or water parks because of some long lettered disease that could attack the gastro system and be fatal.  Yep, fatal stuff from a water park.  No more fishing on the lake.  No swimming in the lake. 

I went to a Dave and Buster's last week and played on all the games.  I didn't have my hand sanitizer with me so as soon as we got home I immediately washed my hands.  Guess something stuck after all!

I say all this just as a reminder to myself that it doesn't take much too cause a problem.  Kiss the wrong guy at the wrong time.  Touch the wrong thing...take that any way you want...they all apply.  Eat at the wrong place.  But what does one do?  Stop living?  It is a delicate balancing act to keep healthy yet live a normal life.  Sometimes the board teeters a bit, by choice or not, and sometimes one just forgets the situation entirely.

When I decided to do the transplant, I vowed to not live my life as I had before....to make it be better.  In some ways it has, in others it is the same.  Right now, I feel I'm at a crossroads as to which way to go.  Guess we'll see what happens in the next few years to see how it may turn out!