Well, as I get these bone marrow aspirates, I get better at it. You can breath through pain and it really helps. That is not to say it was not painful. It was. I felt it from my toe tips to my finger tips, in my bones, all over. It’s quite an amazing jolt really. Anyhow I am glad to be past another one.<\/p>\n
Good news. Between rounds three and four of chemotherapy my blood was sent off for molecular testing. It all came back negative. That is a good sign going into today’s bone marrow aspirate.<\/p>\n
I also had my counts taken:<\/p>\n
White Blood Count: 4.6
\nNeutrophils: 2600
\nHemoglobin: 13.4
\nPlatelets: 315,000<\/p>\n
All pretty good. Getting close on the hemoglobin.<\/p>\n
And I started maintenance today. Once a week a shot of methotrexate. Daily two pills of mercatopurine. And every three months a fifteen day round of ATRA. So today I got the methotrexate shot and started taking mercatopurine and ATRA (again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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