In reading the blogs of other cancer patients, it turns out that everyone who has been diagnosed with cancer approaches each follow up appointment with anxiety. The fear, of course, is that the cancer will have returned.
However, my oncologist and her P.A. were both happy with my progress, and explained that the Fludarabine I was on is very hard to recover from, and that my bone marrow is just not functioning at a robust level at the moment. Even though my white blood cell count is low, they do not want me to curtail my activities in any way. My hemoglobin is back up to 11.8, and they told me that they would not worry as long as it is in the 11.0 to 12.5 range.
I am still somewhat fatigued, but better than I was 2 months ago. Barry and I go for walks when it is not raining, and I can walk 2 kilometres or so, sometimes more. I will just have to accept that it is going to take longer than I expected to recover from the chemo.
I have a CT Scan scheduled for the end of September and that will tell us how my lymph nodes are doing.
We have been very busy visiting family on weekends and having family visit us. We've had Carol & Brian come to stay for a couple of days, Cristen & Lucia & Emma came for 5 days, Steve & Amy came for the same weekend, and Dad & Donna came to lunch on their way to her niece's wedding in Fort Erie. We've driven to Ann Arbor for a weekend, to Stratford for a weekend to meet up with Cristen, Goncalo, Lucia & Emma, to Steve and Amy's cottage and to my Dad's cottage to visit with my aunt and cousins from New Jersey. All that driving and visiting, it's no wonder I have been tired!
Several people have told me that they have worried about me because I have not been keeping up with the blog. I’ll try to stay more current from now on as I continue to recover.
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