Saturday, August 15, 2009

On my way to Normal

At 7am this morning the attending resident who has been walking me through this process from the beginning came in and informed me that my platelet count is now at 167,000! That's right people, I'm officially in the normal platelet range! Yeah! 

But they are still not letting me out of here. They are still nervous that I will go into remission and my platelet level will drop again, so they are going to continue doing the pheresis today (sitting through it now) and again tomorrow morning. They are going to see how things look on Monday and I may be able to skip one on Monday or Tuesday. I'm hopeful that means I will be out on Wednesday or Thursday. So keep your fingers crossed. 

I was able to take a longer walk today through the various connected hospital buildings and even went as far as to venture outside on a hospital patio. It was nice to take a few breaths of fresh air. I pointed out all the different hospitals to my mom and told her how to get to my office from where we were. 

Today is Freshman move in day. So while I did try to convince my doctor that since I am doing so well today that they should let me go to the Pepper Place Farmers Market for an hour (that got a good laugh) I realized that even if I wasn't in the hospital I would be working today. We are having $1 day with burgers, hot dogs, chips and drinks at the Diner outside the main Freshman dorms, so very busy day. I've been advertising the event, so I'm hoping that in my absence everything is going smoothly. I'm sure it is, but my mom is going to walk up there later just to see how things are going, why not it's an inexpensive meal.

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