Since last week, I have been waiting for my blood to recover from the chemo. Last Tuesday they told me that my ticket home was my ANC (Absolute Neutrophil Count) reaching .50. On Tuesday it was finally measurable and they got a measure of .34! Normal range is 1.8 - 7. They continued to climb through the week and reached .40 on Thursday. At this point I was expecting to go home the next day (Friday) because they were so close on Thursday.
The nurse come in Friday morning and told me the at my ANC was at .32 which meant I wasn’t going home. At this point I was packed up and ready to go; her news was a huge letdown. Aware of my disappointed reaction, she told me to “wait and see what the doctor says.” That morning I was also needing blood due to my hemoglobin being low. The doctor finally got to my room about 9:30 and told me he was re-testing me since I received blood and he also didn’t feel the ANC was accurate. He was as shocked as I was that it fell.
After redoing the labs, my measures came back at .92! I was going home! They released me back to the “free world” on Friday at 3PM.
I am loving this break. It’s nice to finally be home after spending 25 days at the hospital. I should be home for the next 2 weeks before starting the transplant process. I am pretty anxious to get this going. The 2 weeks off will be nice, but at the same time, I want to get this over with. I am more nervous about starting this round over the first round. The first round was great, I can't complain about any of it. It was far easier than I ever expected. I feel like this next round isn’t going to go like that. I am hoping for the best, but I’m ready to for worst it can throw at me. I haven’t got any dates on when the transplant will start. I’m sure they will be working on that Monday. In the meantime I am going to enjoy my 2 week break and I will update once I have more info about the transplant.
Love ya ❤
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