There is a STRONG possibility that I will be able to ****GO HOME TOMORROW****!!!! We are just as shocked by this news, though I saw a small light at the end of the tunnel yesterday when the word “home” was brought up. Yesterday, my counts (hemoglobin, white blood cells, and platelets) were showing some increase…
It’s been a hard past 24 hours. I ended up having pretty severe back spasms, to the point where I was in tears and repeated over and over that I just couldn’t do this anymore. I was ready to throw in the towel. Of course the nurses were there to encourage me to keep going…
The past 2 days have been hard. The extreme fatigue, the headaches, along with the mental toll that fighting leukemia can take on a person, is one that I am still learning to accept and comprehend. Being thrown into a cancer that I knew nothing about (I didn’t even know leukemia was a blood cancer),…
Two weeks ago, I walked through the doors of the Cardiovascular Center at U of M, anticipating my 4th ablation. All in attempts to correct an arrhythmia that just seemed to keep coming back, no matter what the doctors did. Little did I know that when I left our house that morning, it would be…
When the nurse took the whiteboard marker and wrote “10” on my board, I had a hard time believing it. Just yesterday (or so I thought), I was told I had cancer. And Day 10 is actually the 10th day after starting chemotherapy. It’s amazing what God can lead us through, even when we think…
But hopefully it’s not here to stay. Today was a rough one. I woke up feeling fantastic, but after trying to get ready this morning, things went downhill pretty quickly. I struggled to get myself dressed and all I wanted to do was fall asleep in the chair or just go back to bed. What…
