Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

Bummer. The cold, sinus whatever thing I mentioned this morning has sent me temperature up this evening. It’s 101.9 So I am off to Sloan "Urgent Care" in a few minutes, where they’ll run some tests, and hopefully send me home with antibiotics. The whole scenario is very similar to my trip to Urgent Care…

Had my weekly blood test today, 17 days after the last shot of the white blood cell booster, neulasta. Last Friday my white count was 4.7, and today it is 4.2. My abs. neut. # last week was 3.6 and this week 3.2. So those numbers are ok – the abs. neut. number is in…

The group representing internists in the U.S. has come up with new guidelines for when mammagrams are appropriate. Benefits of Mammograms For Women in 40s Challenged – washingtonpost.com Reopening a long-running debate, the American College of Physicians, which represents 120,000 internists, issued new guidelines today that instead urge women in their 40s to consult with…

Had a CBC again yesterday, even though I had one on Wednesday when I was at the Sloan Kettering urgent care department. And the shot of neulasta has had a quick effect. My white count was 4.5 and the absolute neut. number 2.2. That is up from 2.0 and 0.8 on Wednesday. The numbers should…

Besides being the author of this book, which is sub-titled "How to Enhance Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself", who is Andrew Weil? Well, he’s a Harvard graduate (Botany) and Harvard medical school graduate, did an internship and then basically dropped out of the standard or orthodox medical field. Spent the next…

I got spend five hours in Sloan Kettering’s Urgent Care department this afternoon and evening. Here’s how I managed that trick – Had a busy day yesterday, going out to New Jersey first thing in the morning. Got home around 5 o’clock and suddenly felt a little achy, so I took some tylenol and headed…

Got my bloodwork results from Friday, and the key numbers were exactly identical to the prior week – WBC at 1.6 and abs. Neut. at 0.7. So at least these seem to be the bottom numbers, since I now haven’t had the white blood cell booster neulasta in over six weeks. Dr. Klimek’s office –…

I had my routine CBC done Friday, but won’t know the results until Monday, when I call Dr. Klimek’s office in NY. I am pleased to say that ten days after ending the augmentin antibiotic regimen, my sinuses are not infected. I think this is about the longest I’ve gone since November without an infection…

Had my CBC done again today, with continuing low results. In fact after they did the quick count in Sleepy Hollow, the nurse called Dr. Klimek, the hematologist, in NY for instructions. The testing done in Sleepy Hollow is not as accurate as the counts done later in the day at Sloan Kettering in Manhattan.…

Saw the hematologist, Dr. Klimek, this morning at Sloan Kettering. My white cell count is still low – although possibly marginally better then it has been. The bone marrow biopsy from four weeks ago did show some abnormal cells – "displastic" is the term. So Dr. Klimek is more concerned now, then she had been,…