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More bad news

As if the company I work for being bought out, and the onset of fall, with the weather changes and the much shorter days it brings isn't enough, I just received my latest blood work today, and it was not to my liking.

Not only did my lymphocyte count drop from 94 thou/mcL to 62 thou/mcL (which may or may not be a good thing), my hemoglobin dropped back down to 11.4 g/dL, and my platelets continued on their downward slide, dropping to 158 thou/mcL from 172 thou/mcL last month, and 200 thou/mcL in July.

What's really disappointing, I went on a pretty hard bike ride this morning, and climbed the 2 miles up to the top of Turnbull Canyon within 2 seconds of my best time this year. I was really feeling good, that is up until just now.

It's always possible the hard bike ride, and the slight dehydration, may have skewed the results, but I'd have thought the results would be higher (like my creatinine, which was up to 1.2 today), not lower.

Whatever, something is going on. Either the tests are screwed up, my [enlarged] spleen is acting up, and imprisoning my platelets, or maybe my indolent MCL has transformed into something else. Either way I maybe looking at some sort of treatment sooner than later. (And I just booked a trip to Roatan in June 2010 with my dive group.) Sounds like a good reason not to make plans too far in advance.

Anywaze, fortunately I have an appointment scheduled with my oncologist tomorrow in the afternoon, so I emailed her to let her know she needs to start thinking about the next step. And I guess I'd better start doing some more research again. It seems after 7-1/2 years of thinking I may never need treatment, has left me somewhat lacking in knowledge.

And to think this all started when I switched to using Japanese green tea leaves in May, from the green tea I used to buy at Trader Joe's and Fresh and Easy for $2 for 40 bags. Umh!

Comments

Becky said…
Maybe you should check out that clinic Pat's wife is at. http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/.

Couldn't hoit!
Marc said…
Yeah it could. He's a quack, but I wouldn't tell Pat that!

Now that I think about it, this all started when I switched to the real Japanese green tea. I already cut back, but now I'm thinking I should cut back even more.

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