Greetings from Nanjing-China!

This time no health-related reports! Just fun! Enjoying my new visit to Southeast University in Nanjing.

Here are some photos taken around the campus this morning. I will add more in the coming days…

If I can travel “freely” now, it is because of the outstanding job made by my wonderful graft doctor and the team in Saint Antoine hospital. I don’t forget my stem cells donor (she is within me all the time ;-)!), and my beautiful family and friends. I love you all!

On the breakfast table… The ones who visited China before will understand the meaning :-)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Air pollution in nanjing this morning (october 25th)…

Primary school in Nanjing:

 

 

Smelling the chemicals when traveling along the corridor… Good memory of “the old good time”!

 

 

Today, October 26th, we are visiting Hangzhou, a place I already visited last spring. Here are a few photos I took in May and photos taken during this visit…

Week-end in Hangzhou…

Xixi National Wetland Park…

 

 

 

 

Housing in Hangzhou

 

 

West lake and a pagoda:

 

 

Copper museum

Light show

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 29th: back in Nanjing…

 

 

 

 

Nanjing October 30th: in and around Southest University Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nanjing or Paris? Eiffel tower and Les Invalides ;-)!

 

 

Chinese jasmine cookies…

 

 

On and around the campus this morning, November 1st 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 2nd, Last chinese breakfast…

 

 

Around the campus…

 

 

 

 

November 2nd: last night in Nanjing, in an hotel near the campus…

 

November 3rd: In Beining, on the way home, waiting for the boarding…

 

This week has been “an hospital visits” week!

First, I went to see an ophthalmologist as I was thinking that I might need to have surgery to correct a cataract. I was wrong! The doctor told me that it was not yet the time. I just needed to adjust my corrective lenses. Yes! So happy! I have to say that I am really afraid to have somebody touching my eyes. I know it is stupid: I was not afraid by having the stem cells transplant! Older but not more cleaver ;-)!

Then, I had a follow up visit with my dermatologist at Tenon hospital. I had a carcinoma, which has been treated by photodynamic therapy, but which had made a come back after a few months. I had it treated a second time by a cream (Aldara) for 6 weeks, and the doctor wanted to have a look on it. Well, it worked in part… The next step to remove it should be by surgery but my dermatologist wanted to try something less damaging for my face ;-)! So, he used a spray of liquid nitrogen “to burn it”. Results in a few months from now!

Then we discussed a small bump I had on the back of the head…and yes it is another carcinoma, although it is just a small one! This one will be treated by the same cream I used before… Reuslts in a few months!

But, maybe, there is a good news, as pointed out by my doctor: I don’t have anymore photopheresis, I stopped to take ciclosporine, both limited my ability to fight those small “cancers”. Now my immune system will be stronger so we might expect that no more carcinomas will show up…

I received a copy of the detailed record sent by my kind graft doctor to my family doctor regarding my last visit to her. She wrote that I am in cytological and molecular remission: so it is official! Thanks to the group of doctors and nurses at Saint Antoine (in particular my graft doctor), the photopheresis nurses, my donor, my family, my friends: it is a big success!

Today, I have an apointment with my family doctor: first injection of the vaccin against measles + rubella + mumps! Yes I am like a baby:-)!

We are now entering the season I never liked: fall. To help, I would suggest this beautiful song:

 

Take care and enjoy life!

I love you all!