Notes From Supergirl

My Diary from the Trenches

Day 213

December30

Here’s a quick little update. I went to the hospital yesterday for a bloodcheck, expecting things to be on their way up, and found out that my white count was even lower! It was down to 0.7 and neutrophils had dropped. On the bright side, my platelets had gone up 10,000 on their own and my red counts were really good. Everyone told me this is normal, not to worry and that I should be fine by Monday. In the meantime, it completely detoured our New Year’s Eve getaway plans and now I’m back to walking around with a mask on. Basically, I can’t leave the house to go anywhere except the hospital until I have an immune system again.

The pain in my right side is pretty severe right now so I’m going in for an MRI today and very eager to get those results. I am hoping that – unlike everything else with me – there is a quick, easy and fixable explanation for all of it.

I really appreciate all of your pep talks recently. This has been really hard. I feel like I’m in the worst part of my treatment all over again and I didn’t expect to be here. Physically, I’m feeling pretty bad and it’s making it really hard for me to mentally get in the game. I just want to be healthy and pain free again. But I know this is temporary and I just have to keep my chin up and get through this. I saw Roseann yesterday who, as always, offered great words of advice. Trisha also helped reassure me that this first part of the study trial is the hardest and that things will get easier.

I’m really disappointed to be missing out on quite a few things over the next few days but I am grateful to be as healthy as I can be right now and home with my family. I hope that I’ll have an opportunity to get out and about in the coming weeks.

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2 Comments to

“Day 213”

  1. Avatar December 31st, 2010 at 11:24 pm Chip Says:

    Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2011 Jess.

    Chip


  2. Avatar January 1st, 2011 at 1:25 am Martha Says:

    Ditto to Chip’s message! Martha & Bob