September 11, 2003
Friends,
OK! The betting is closed! I won! I am no longer Neutropenic!!!!! I am kind of jazzed!! That probably qualifies as the understatement of the year. What it means is that I am no longer taking Levaquin, Difloucan, Vancomycin, and Rosephin. I don't have to go to the hospital every day, and I don't need to wear a mask all the time. My immune system is BACK!!! I can fend off all those evil bacteria by myself! Enough euphoria for the moment. I feel a lot better this afternoon without all the assaults on my system. I still feel a little week from the battles of the last week. Hopefully, the numbers will continue to climb and I will be able to spend a week or so living like a normal human being. Then start over again. Arrangements are being made for me to go to City of Hope to talk to the doctors there. I just paid off my Jeep! What can go wrong! I guess I had better go live in a cave now. :-))) My next appointment is on Saturday. Hopefully, by then my Hemoglobin and RBC counts will start up a little more vigorously. I am getting pretty anemic.
On the medical front, the lab results tell the story. Another big pop in the WBC Count. I am still taking Mycelex, Flagyl, and Potassium for the moment. The Flagyl will run out in a few days.
Lab Results |
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| WBC | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| RBC | 4.30 | 2.71 | 2.64 | 2.52 |
| HGB | 13.9 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.2 |
| PLT | 130 | 166 | 141 | 160 |
Have a great day!
Ted
tw@wilcoxent.com