{"id":4309,"date":"2006-11-08T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:19:58","slug":"brief_health_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4309","title":{"rendered":"Brief Health Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/10\/health_update.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Health update<\/a>, I had a bone marrow biopsy done (two weeks ago today). I finally spoke with Dr. Zelenetz about the results yesterday (he&#8217;s a difficult guy to catch up with). <\/p>\n<p>The results aren&#8217;t all in, but what is available is inconclusive. I&#8217;m a little bit low on platelet producing cells, but my platelet count is normal anyway. As far as the main issue of my low white blood cell counts, we&#8217;ll have to wait about another ten days before those results come in. I am due to see Dr. Z on November 22nd. <\/p>\n<p>As mentioned previously, I may have another stem cell transplant if they determine that the problem is that the original graft didn&#8217;t &quot;take&quot;. This is not a big deal &#8211; would be done as an out-patient. But whether I need it or not is still to be determined. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously mentioned Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Health update, I had a bone marrow biopsy done (two weeks ago today). I finally spoke with Dr. Zelenetz about the results yesterday (he&#8217;s a difficult guy to catch up with). The results aren&#8217;t all in, but what is available is inconclusive. I&#8217;m a little bit low on platelet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13799,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/13799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}