I haven’t done a personal update in awhile, mostly because constantly updating my own condition would quickly make this blog annoying. But also because there hasn’t been much news.

The last few months haven’t been much but waiting to see if my bone marrow decides to work or not. As of now my counts haven’t moved enough to proclaim any form of success. There’s been days where we see signs of improvement—a rise in white blood cells, a less drastic drop in platelets—but a week or two later the counts fall back again.

However today a first happened. My blood counts remained the same as last weeks’. No rise, no fall, just the same.  Notable only because there wasn’t a single transfusion—blood or platelets—at my last visit. Meaning my marrow maintained those numbers all by itself.

It’s now been six weeks since my last red blood cell transfusion and 18 days since my last platelet transfusion. Both are ‘personal bests.’ I say this because when hearing the news, my mother’s reaction was to keep repeating “this is quite an accomplishment.”

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