February 9, 2009

I want to send a special thank you out to the 445th AES for sponsoring the Blood & Bone Marrow Drive in my honor at the American Legion in Fairborn, Ohio. Master Sergeant Drake told me they had about 34 people donate blood, some of which doubled up units & they also had about 20 people register to become Bone Marrow Donor's. I thought this was fantastic & everyone that donated & worked the event should be commended. Thank you all so much!

Today's labs
Date------Day----WBC----ANC--------Hgb--------PLT---- Transfusions
26 Jan---146-----4.5----3100---------9.1----------37------------N/A
28 Jan---148-----2.7----1100---------10.6----------64------------N/A
30 Jan---150-----2.8----1000---------10.4----------85------------N/A
2 Feb---153-----36.4----31700--------10.6---------131------------N/A
4 Feb---155-----3.9-----????---------9.9----------160------------N/A
6 Feb---157-----3.2-----1500---------10.0---------190------------N/A
9 Feb---160-----6.0----4000------11.8-------262------------N/A
Today started out rough. I did not want to get out of bed. My sweats have escalated to not only at night but intermittently during the day. This morning after my shower they were real bad, I thought I was going to have to take another shower. Our weekend was pretty mellow. We did go out to the clubhouse to socialize for a few hours on Saturday night but we were home in bed shortly after 10. Marc did make it out for a short ride on Sunday it was in the Mid forty's. I on the other hand said no it will have to warm up a bit more before I try to get out on the bike.

Chanie came to take me to Chemotherapy this morning & I am so grateful. After taking the kids to school I realized I am really not up to driving in Columbus today. I have just been really tired all day. When we got to the Chemo Clinic they did not even call me back for labs until 12:30pm. I figured we would of been out of there by then since the Chemo is only supposed to take an hour. Needless to say they did not even start my Chemo until after 2:oopm. I texted Brandon to let him & Katie know I would not be there to pick them up, so Misty picked them up for me. We got out of the James around 3:30pm & we made it back to London a little after 4pm. Chanie had not seen Katie in years & Zack was his usual charming self. Paige has a make up game at McClain & Brandon was at wrestling practice even through he still can't wrestle.

Chanie offered to help me fix dinner, spaghetti & meatballs. Marc was home & able to help me & I knew we got back later than we expected. Her girls have Karate class tonight so I sent hr home. On a side note, I know my brain is still off. I left my cell phone at the hospital & did not realize it until I was almost home. They have it & I will pick it up tomorrow at my next treatment. I still feel tired but all n all I can't complain. I don't feel sick from it. In all honestly I think the tiredness is still part of my recovery from being sick. This should be a long week with treatments everyday & driving back & forth to Columbus. At least my labs are up & we should be able to monitor them pretty closely all week. They hospital does not think my counts will drop until the third week. Or at least that is when they said I should feel the worst, we'll see.

Sharon White made a donation to my Leukemia fund right before I went back in the hospital with the bacterial infection so I have yet to tell her thank you. I some how missed it because I do not check my credit union account but every other week, so I missed it. Sharon, thank you so much you have already done so much & I don't want you to think we forgot about you because we haven't. The family also got a Valentine's card from my niece Sierra & I got another Valentines card from a great friend Katie Miller. You ladies are all awesome & you know just how to lift my spirits, thank you all.

I will try to update tomorrow we will have to see how the energy level goes!