Today I had my blood drawn for cell counts. When I called into the nurse to get the results, she asked if I “wanted the good news first, or the good news?”<\/p>\n
Wow. My platelets are down to 280,000. That is human range again! No more aspirin and no more dang Lovenox shots in the stomach twice a day.<\/p>\n
My white blood cell counts are low but respectable. My neutrophils are enough to to take care of myself. And my red blood cells are anemic but high enough!<\/p>\n
All counts are coming back up from the consolidation round of chemotherapy. Already!<\/p>\n
That means I did it! I went through chemotherapy as an outpatient!!! No easy feat for those fighting leukemia, in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n
In fact, the counts were so good, they canceled next week’s blood draw. I do have a full doctor’s appointment late next week. That will include a blood draw for cell counts. And knowing my Oncologist\/Hematologist, she will want to do a bone marrow aspirate. Ouch!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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