Last week's Chemo is working. Blood numbers are coming down as desired.
Platelet Count seems to drop to the teens every day with a normal range of 150-450. They want this clotting factor above 20 for any possible bleeding so I've been getting a daily Platelet transfusions. White Blood Count is around 0.2 with the normal range 4-10.5 which means my body's infection fighting ability is practically nil.
They tell me that the effect of the Chemo in the body will diminish by mid next week and the numbers should start to increase. That will take approximately 1 week when they will do another Bone Marrow Procedure to see exactly how effective the Chemo was in getting rid of all the bad Leukemia cells. Hopefully then the date for the Bone Marrow Transplant with my younger sister, Nancy, can be scheduled.
The 8th week in the hospital has had it's ups and downs.
Felt great for about 3 days with lots of energy. Was able to walk the hall ways for a total of 50 minutes on Tuesday . :-) and do some other exercises.
Then suddenly fatigue & exhaustion set in on Wednesday. This was accompanied by some chills, fever and erratic pulse rate, and blood pressure. My resting pulse rate is normally around 60 and I was wondering what was happening when the nurse kept reporting that it had climbed into the 90's, then low 100's and finally in the 130's throughout the day and evening while I was resting in bed.
I'm grateful that I haven't lost my appetite (even though I'm losing weight) and I've not experienced any nausea during the process so far.
Hopefully next week's post will be able to report that the numbers are going up and my strength and ability to fight infection is increasing.
Sharon is doing well.She is able to join me for lunch everyday.
When she is home, she is busy sorting some of "our stuff" preparing for a garage sale that Steve's family from Alabama are helping with when they visit for a week the 1st part of June.
Continued Thanks for keeping Sharon and I in your thoughts and prayers.
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Glad to hear how well things are progressing. Sounds like everything is being killed off appropriately, so hoping next week you will be feeling stronger.
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