I got my results on Friday ....the results from the blood test done before the donor Bro's cells went in..... my regular results....They were at 116!!!! That's 5.5 weeks with NO drop in cells. Do you know what this means?
It means that since the blood cells are always dying off and being replaced in a normal person you are always making new cells so that you levels are relatively the same from week to week. My plateletts are up to 200 from 25 when I was getting off the interferon. And I have been consistently needing red cells for 9 or 10 months now. The usual thing was a transfusion, then in a week it might drop to 115/110 then down to 110/ 105 a week later then by the time I got to Brisbane after 4 weeks it would be at about 90 once it was as low as 79. But not recently. I have been at 114 to 116 for 5.5 weeks with out a transfusion!!!! So weird is this that Doc Shoozenbootzen did a BMA Bone Marrow Aspiration (dig a trench in your hip bone and use a garden spade to remove a small sample) and my Fibrosis (cancer) is still there, not reduced. So even though the fibrosis is still there and it reduces my ability to produce red cells I still managed to produce them??? Strange days indeed.
more later
Chris
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