One week at home

WCC: 2.7

Neut: 2.4!!!! (highest they have been in 3 years)

Haem: 107 (close to normal range)

Platelets: 102

Weight: 60.2kg (but different scales)

It is nice to be home, but been back to the hospital on Monday, Wednesday & Friday and down to Westmead on Thursday - so not a whole lot of time to sit around! The traveling back and forth is exhausting, and if I'm not doing that I am pretty much sleeping or trying to lay as still as possible so I am not throwing up.

The chemo has obviously (according to my blood results) done what is was supposed to, but it is strange to look at these numbers, and not feel well, when I have had much lower numbers, yet felt so much better.

I was hooked up to an IV iron chelation medication (to reduce my iron levels) on Monday which was attached to pump (which I carried around with me all week). I was unsure if this was what was making me nauseous, but as it got disconnected yesterday and I'm feeling better today, then that was probably it! Unfortunately it will get hooked back up on Monday.

My visit to Westmead has given the 'all systems go' to Bone Marrow Transplant now. They have said they will look at starting it in 4 - 6 weeks, but will know more detail after my biopsy on Wednesday. I'm lucky that I have had donors on my file for over 2 years now and they are all still looking good. They will be going with one of the young German males!

I will have to have another round of consolidation chemo before the BMT starts just to keep the leukemia at bay before they start the 'big' round.

But in the meantime, sleep and obsessing about food - if I should eat, or not eat. What to eat? Am I going to bring it up or not?

I'll be back at the hospital on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week and hopefully by early the week after will know more about a start date at Westmead and what else is involved in the lead up to it all.

(above: when you start to look too much like your husband!)