I had this strange idea. I’ve been doing strength training for over 25 years. Picking up something heavy isn’t something I just give up because my situation has changed. What it does though is give me an edge in working through my current diagnosis and it’s subsequent ordeal. I might not be deadlifting 600lbs right …
These first 2 days are chemo days. My chemo conditioning consists of busulfan. Evidently it’s pretty harsh. Everything starts bright and early at 8am. Where they started chemo. It takes about 3 hours so I’m hooked up from 8am until 11am. Thankfully no more IV after that but that’ll change around Day -3 when I …
I woke up like I had every day this morning, just trying Amy get the girls off to school with as little trouble as possible. They were coming home at noon to see me off and so that Amy could take me to the hospital make sure I had everything needed. Like the day before, …
9/22/21 The only thing I had this day was a Covid test and a follow up with the dental surgery team. I’d had a ulcer in my mouth that they were keeping a watch one. But as we got closer to the my admission date it thankfully had gone away. With dental surgery being the …
I thought I was just going in to have a quick chat with Laura, the nurse practitioner for Dr Baratam, but turns out I needed a blood transfusion too. So what was supposed to be a quick morning, turned in to a half a day event. Blood work at 7am. Visit with Laura at 8am. …
After the results came back from my bone marrow biopsy, the doctors were ready to get me admitted. Just had to jump through a few more hoops. September 20, 20121 I had 4 appt. across 3 different buildings. It was quite the morning. First at 7am was my pulmonary function test. One of the chemos …
I finally get a pain in my ass! Been looking forward to this for a week, or more. Well, not really the pain but eager to see how this most recent chemo was treating me. As I described in my last blog post, the blasts were too high to go to transplant so I had …
Tuesday September 7th, I was scheduled to have a bone marrow biopsy. We have to check my current level of blasts in the marrow. Blasts or myeloblasts are the most immature cells. Generally having a blast level of 20% or more is an indication of acute leukemia. Prior to my first round of chemo (Vyxeos) …
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