Day 6 is up and running. Better today with less sickness, although the dawn chorus was accompanied by the sound of retching. Strange, it passes me by and I carry on afterwards as though it was quite normal. Perhaps it is, although I thought I came from family of 'sensititive sickers'.
I had meant to listen to the end of the 'Test' but I fell asleep and I missed it, I'm sure there will be opportunities later in the season.
My bloods came back earlier and I'm officially neutropenic (zero neutrophils), so from here on in it's a waiting game for my transplant to graft and my counts to comeback up, usually about days 10 to 14. I will be keeping a graphical record of these and probably publish them here if anyone is interested.
Busy day today with lots of visits, both personal and official, which passes the time, but is exhausting.
Later..
5 comments:
Well done, Tasker, you've thrashed those pesky neutrophils from your alcohol stream, try to avoid allowing the medics to contaminate it with any blood.
Hi Uncle Charles
Iv been reading your blog tonight so all up to date... can stop asking dad the numerous questions now!!
Just thought i'd say hi and wish you well!!
See you soon love becky x x
Hi Charles,
Bet you won't be eating diced carrots for a long time ...... We hope it's not too long before you start to feel human again. It must all be getting so boring.
News from Brookfield Road - someone parked in Alison's space yesterday, the Brown's left their car window open, James had three green boxes for collection, mad Alison's still bonkers, Ron walked in your back door and caught Jeanette coming out of the shower starkers (ah well, the rest was so boring I thought I'd see if you were still awake)!!
Keep your pecker up.
Love Helen & Ron xx
hi Charles
Sounds like you're doing just as fine as is possible. And I'm impressed with all this communication stuff. Small tip: Practice not actually waking up fully when they come for blood tests etc. I found sleeping altogether the best thing (and so are earplugs with noisy snoring neighbours!).
Every day gets you closer to getting out in the fresh air...
All best wishes. but no jokes sadly
Xanthe and (the other) Charles
A graphical record of your blood counts - now that sounds like you're reapproaching the strange place that you call normality, Mr T. Is anyone else put in mind of Adrian Mole updating his Norwegian Leather Industry charts??
I expect you to fire up S-plus and astound everyone with box plots and r-squareds.
You weren't the only one to sleep through the test match - most of the Windies did too....
Glad you're in better spirits (no pun intended)
P
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