Thursday

I went in Thursday to meet with Dr. Shustov. He said that my final bone marrow results show no leukemia cells. (and that it is a very sensitive test) This lessens the chance that I would need a bone marrow transplant. It also means that cancer is not the reason my blood numbers are not coming up. In the bone marrow I had a lot of immature cells, so soon these cells will be out in my blood and my counts will come up. I have a tentative date of Tuesday to start the next round of chemo. I received blood today, and will get platelets tomorrow. Monday I will have my counts checked and if everything is high enough I'll check into the hospital on Tuesday.