Mom and dad left for Idaho today. Hopefully the weather doesn't slow them down too much. There are quite of few bad winter storms they are gonna have to drive through, so please keep them in your thoughts.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Black Friday
To my extended family at JCPenney's, I really hope you guys have a great day today! I wish I was there to be with you through the craziness!! I remember opening last year and I had a blast. It was crazy but it was a ton of fun!!! Love you all very much!!
Mom and dad left for Idaho today. Hopefully the weather doesn't slow them down too much. There are quite of few bad winter storms they are gonna have to drive through, so please keep them in your thoughts.
Mom and dad left for Idaho today. Hopefully the weather doesn't slow them down too much. There are quite of few bad winter storms they are gonna have to drive through, so please keep them in your thoughts.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Bone Marrow Biopsy Results
Well I made it through the biopsy with minimal pain. Thank goodness for pain meds. The doc just came in to let me know that there is still some Leukemia cells in my bone marrow. So it looks like my hospital stay just got extended :-( I will need to do a 7 day chemotherapy treatment, starting tonight. It will consist of two different kind of chemotherapy drugs. I will start both tonight and one of them will last for 3 days and the other will continue until day 7.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Petechiae
Woke up this morning with my legs feeling like they were on fire. I remember waking up last night because I was itching them. Well the doc came in to tell me that it is Petechiae, due to my low platelet count. From the sounds of it this is pretty normal when the platelet count is so low. The doctor is going to give me a steroid creme and I'm also going to get a platelet transfusion today.
Petechiae (pronounced puh-TEE-kee-ee) are pinpoint, round spots that appear on the skin as a result of bleeding under the skin. The bleeding causes the petechiae to appear red, brown or purple. Petechiae may look like a rash.
Petechiae (pronounced puh-TEE-kee-ee) are pinpoint, round spots that appear on the skin as a result of bleeding under the skin. The bleeding causes the petechiae to appear red, brown or purple. Petechiae may look like a rash.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Leukemia
I've decided to start blogging again, so my first post is gonna be an update.
Over the last couple months I have been feeling really run down. I was having really bad headaches and this crazy pulsating in my right ear. So after meeting with my doctor, he had me get lab work done and a CT scan of my head on October 6th. After review of the lab work and scan, I was admitted to the hospital on October 7th. I was told that I had a sinus infection and that I was anemic and that I needed to get a blood transfusion. Over the next month or so, I had more lab work done and the doctor mentioned the chance that the cancer may be back. On November 3rd, I had a Bone Marrow Biopsy to confirm that I did have cancer. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
On November 6th, I was admitted to UC Davis to begin my battle with Leukemia. The treatment plan for Leukemia is so much different than Lymphoma. The first part of the treatment is called an Induction, which will keep me in the hospital for about a month. After about a months time, I will get to go home for a couple weeks and then return for a process call Consolidation. Consolidation is a 5 day hospital stay of chemotherapy and then I go home to get my counts back up. From what I'm told I will do about 4 Consolidation treatments. I have been told that the doctors also want to do a Bone Marrow Transplant. Not all Leukemia patients get a transplant but considering I am a previous cancer patient it is a very good idea to do so. This will help reduce my chances of another relapse.
So has of today, Monday November 22nd, I am still in the hospital. The doctors are meeting with the transplant team today to decide a time frame for the transplant. The doctors I spoke with last week stated that if approved I could be getting a transplant within the next couple months depending if we can find a bone marrow donor match in that time. I'm hoping to hear an outcome of the doctors meeting sometime today or tomorrow.
The doctors tell me that I will be here for about another week and half to two weeks. My WBC or white blood count needs to get to a certain number before they will let me go home. During the Consolidation treatments I will go home to get my counts to go back up. The doctors tell me that the transplant will be another 30 day stay in the hospital. So I will definitely be sick of the hospitals by the time I'm done but it will be well worth it.
I've been using Facebook to keep my friends and family updated but the downfall of Facebook is I am limited to the amount of words I can type. I've decided that I put so much time into this blog when I was going through Lymphoma that I am going to take the same effort for Leukemia. So please feel free to leave comments on my post. I would love to hear from you all!!!
Over the last couple months I have been feeling really run down. I was having really bad headaches and this crazy pulsating in my right ear. So after meeting with my doctor, he had me get lab work done and a CT scan of my head on October 6th. After review of the lab work and scan, I was admitted to the hospital on October 7th. I was told that I had a sinus infection and that I was anemic and that I needed to get a blood transfusion. Over the next month or so, I had more lab work done and the doctor mentioned the chance that the cancer may be back. On November 3rd, I had a Bone Marrow Biopsy to confirm that I did have cancer. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
On November 6th, I was admitted to UC Davis to begin my battle with Leukemia. The treatment plan for Leukemia is so much different than Lymphoma. The first part of the treatment is called an Induction, which will keep me in the hospital for about a month. After about a months time, I will get to go home for a couple weeks and then return for a process call Consolidation. Consolidation is a 5 day hospital stay of chemotherapy and then I go home to get my counts back up. From what I'm told I will do about 4 Consolidation treatments. I have been told that the doctors also want to do a Bone Marrow Transplant. Not all Leukemia patients get a transplant but considering I am a previous cancer patient it is a very good idea to do so. This will help reduce my chances of another relapse.
So has of today, Monday November 22nd, I am still in the hospital. The doctors are meeting with the transplant team today to decide a time frame for the transplant. The doctors I spoke with last week stated that if approved I could be getting a transplant within the next couple months depending if we can find a bone marrow donor match in that time. I'm hoping to hear an outcome of the doctors meeting sometime today or tomorrow.
The doctors tell me that I will be here for about another week and half to two weeks. My WBC or white blood count needs to get to a certain number before they will let me go home. During the Consolidation treatments I will go home to get my counts to go back up. The doctors tell me that the transplant will be another 30 day stay in the hospital. So I will definitely be sick of the hospitals by the time I'm done but it will be well worth it.
I've been using Facebook to keep my friends and family updated but the downfall of Facebook is I am limited to the amount of words I can type. I've decided that I put so much time into this blog when I was going through Lymphoma that I am going to take the same effort for Leukemia. So please feel free to leave comments on my post. I would love to hear from you all!!!
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