Wow my counts continue to climb. Amazing:<\/p>\n
White Blood Cells: 6.0!!!
\nHemoglobin: 16.2!!!
\nPlatelets: 278,000
\nNeutrophils: 3,800!!!<\/p>\n
However, while today’s bone marrow aspirate was not the most painful (the first one was the worst), it was up there. For those of you who have not had a bone marrow aspirate, the pain is two-fold and works like this: 1) the initial puncture – when the needle is pushed into the pelvis; they basically “hammer” it in, it takes a bit and it hurts, but the pain stays in that area 2) when the marrow is drawn into the syringe, it creates a vacuum, this is quick, but it creates an unbelievable flash or jolt of pain, I usually feel this through every single bone in my body..toes to fingers to skull. This time the first part was rough, I should have a pretty good bruise. The second part was not as bad as normal, i.e. I did not feel it through my entire body.<\/p>\n
Ah well that’s five of those since April 1, 2005. No more until late April, 2006 :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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