Rebooting Melissa

First the counts:

Date   Hematocrit   WBC    Neutrophils   Platelets

4/22       37.1          5880        3670           314

4/24       36.8          9920        5840           338

4/25       34.2          7110        4740           271

4/26       32.4          5710        4580           249

4/28       35.1          2900        2480           196

4/29       32             2770        2580           174

5/1         33.9          1050          -                133

5/3         33.5          150            -                82

5/4         32.3          90              -                52

5/5         30.5          <50 (!!)      -              33

5/6         29.3          50              -                26

5/7         28.3          260            -                31

5/8         28.7          5810          5530          58

5/9         28.8          19370        14000       102

How’s that for a rebound?

They obviously stopped the growth hormone after the 5/8 results. The night of the last dose her large bones really ached then the numbers the next day showed why! 

Platelets are coming back

We attending HIPOP Thursday and Friday and have Saturday off. We’ll go Sunday just to get the counts done again.

Monday morning it’s back to Hopkins for the Hickman catheter to be removed! She’ll have some final blood work done and if all is well she’ll be discharged and we can go home!

There’s some confusion over whether we see Dr. Brodsky again on Monday, the coordinator says yes, the HIPOP don’t know and his office says no. I guess we’ll find out Monday.

The main issue now is boredom! I got caught up on a lot of work over the past few days which is good, she can probably go out and things but they’ve not officially told us so we’re carrying on with the mask/isolation etc. It’d be stupid to come all this way then get a last minute infection. 

Mel is itching (literally) to get her catheter out. The baldness is accelerating. She should ‘bic’ her head but won’t.

I think it’d look better that way than the patchiness she has now. It’s her head though so I’ll leave her to it!

We went to the image centre and bought some hats, sunblock and a scarf type thing that goes under a hat.

That’s about it really!

In other news after much soul searching, prevarication, self hatred for even thinking about it, I’ve decided to become a very, very, temporary Chelsea fan. Although like any right thinking person I despise them I honestly hate Manchester United more. It’s not been an easy decision.*

Also beard fans, I regret to inform you the scrawny, patchy, ginger beard passed away this afternoon.

It’s gone the way of Mel’s hair - the plug ‘ole.

Oh and Spanky has got an ear infection and he’s on steroids. Fortunately for us even high strength steriods can’t break through his natural sloth, if anything he’s lazier. 

He did give me a ride to the shops earlier though.

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*the author reserves the right to change his mind if Chel$ki win the league tomorrow. A double for them would be unbearable. Having said that so would Manure winning the Champions League. God I hate football.