Sorry!

Sorry everyone for keeping you hanging for the past couple weeks!  Mostly I just have good news.  I went to see the bone marrow specialists last Wednesday, and it looks like I won't be going in that direction unless the cancer comes back within the next 5 years.  Phew!  I also found out during the consultation that although my second bone marrow biopsy showed the same "peculiar abnormalities" in my marrow, there were less of them!  I don't know why no one had told us that before!  So they'll do another biopsy after I'm done with treatments and there might not be any more of the abnormalities.  Who knows!  Pray hard!  The best thing that I walked away with from that visit is that they want me to see an Immunologist to see if there is some underlying problem to the illnesses that I keep getting so that maybe I can get some help there.  They decided this because they looked at ALL of my medical history and noted that since I got mono when I was 16, I have had several illnesses.  Walking pneumonia, shingles, whooping cough, epstein barr virus (EBV), and now lymphoma.  We're going to try to get some answers!  Wahoo!

So I was supposed to have my 5th chemotherapy treatment yesterday.  Didn't happen.  Surprise surprise.  My platelets were up to 61 last Monday and yesterday they had dropped to 30.  Oh well.  Not as bad as less than one!  lol.  My hematocrit was also low, so I got 2 blood transfusions.  So I'm having more energy today!  I didn't feel very good yesterday after the transfusions though, and I think it's because they didn't give me benedril to help with the effects.  They usually give me tylenol AND benedril for transfusions, but for some reason Dr. Harker had crossed off benedril on my transfusion order.  I'll have to ask him about that because usually I take transfusions very well, but yesterday I didn't.  Anyway, all is well and we'll try chemotherapy again next Tuesday.  Here's a fun picture of me watching the blood slowly move through the tube into my port.  I was so excited to get it!