The next milestone: Getting back home and defining the new normal

The doctors in Manipal Hospital, Bangalore have officially given me a fit to travel letter.
We will be flying back to our home in Germany tomorrow night.

After almost 8 months of being in Bangalore under close watch of the team in Manipal Hospital, we hope to now slowly get back to our normal life - the NEW normal. Needless to say, we look forward it.

On 1st May, (while leaving Germany to begin the countdown to the transplant) I felt I was walking into a cloud uncertainty. Strangely, I feel the same now although the context and scenario is different. Medically, I am better off now and hope to remain so. Having experienced so much ups and downs, the 'change of hands' (and place) from the team in Bangalore to the team in Heidelberg brings up similar feelings of uncertainty.

• How, what would our new normal life be and feel like?
• What would be the school of thought of the Nephrologists in Germany with respect to the post-transplant care
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4 months and 5 days since the transplant. Hoping for a 'normal' life ahead...yet conscious of the fact that not much is in our control after all. So, here's to embracing uncertainty and taking on whatever (else) life has in store for us.