Here is the information on my most recent blood counts:<\/p>\n
– White blood cells are low but acceptable. I just need to be careful to keep my hands clean and watch out for who I come into contact with. No sick people!<\/p>\n
– Red blood cells. Technically, I am anemic but I am far better than I was on April first when I checked into the hospital. I do not get tired. No fever, no shortness of breath.<\/p>\n
– Platelets are whack. I have about two and a half times the amount of platelets a male of my size should have. While this sounds good considering it was not long ago I had to get platelet transfusions, it is not. To fix this I am taking Lovenox shots twice a day (in the stomach) for another 30 days. I am also taking an aspirin once a day.<\/p>\n
Well I am finding out that I am not my blood counts. I still feel good. I can drive, walk a long distiance, take a warm shower…all with impunity \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is the information on my most recent blood counts: – White blood cells are low but acceptable. I just need to be careful to keep my hands clean and watch out for who I come into contact with. No sick people! – Red blood cells. Technically, I am anemic but I am far better … Continue reading Blood Counts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[240,193,239,238,237,236],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leukemia","tag-aspirin","tag-blood-counts","tag-lovenox","tag-platelets","tag-red-blood-cells","tag-white-blood-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkrolczyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}