Health Update
The super short version: I'm still in near total remission :) I had a scare about a month and a half ago when my blood test -- one day prior to a scheduled maintenance treatment -- came back with a dangerously low neutrophil count. In normal people, the count should be between 2.0 and 7.5. In cancer patients, they like it be between 1.0 and 2.0, especially in order to give you treatment. Mine came back 0.1. The long and short of it was that a) it was too low for treatment and b) I was in danger of picking up an infection (which I did and which landed me for a three day stay in the lovely Kindcardine, Ontario hospital while on vacation). My neutrophil count has been fairly low since originally being diagnosed a year and a half ago. After my 0.1 count, my oncologist suggested that it might be time for another bone marrow biopsy. That happened several weeks ago. It came back negative -- which doesn't mean I have no bone marrow :) It means the cancer has