Good news.
No new injuries to myself today!
BUT my forehead is super achy from yesterday.
Second round of shots went fine this morning and then they sent me across the street to get a platelet transfusion.
People said that platelets wouldn’t take as long as a blood transfusion (had one of those on October 10th) but I’m not convinced it was much faster.
Many years ago when I was still on Facebook I watched people seem to compete about two things, first was whose kids were the worst behaved (seriously people, I hope those kids never saw those posts) and second, who was the most tired.
Ever since then I have avoided using the word tired but today, today I hit new levels of tired that I have never before felt.
Don’t know if the platelets will help with the tired or if they are just to lower my risk of internal hemorraging (which is plenty) but dang am I wiped out.
It all went well and on my way out I ran into a friend from work on the sidewalk.
Small world.
Was nice to see you RT!
On the way home I stopped at the co-op and got a fresh loaf of sourdough bread because I’m only a few days in and I’m already weary of the TAKE WITH FOOD instructions on all my meds.
That bread made everything better.
About to eat more of that bread and then I can do last meds for the day and go to bed.
Historical Note for Those of You New to My Illness: The reason we caught things early is becuase I have been a blood donor since high school. After 35 years of regular blood donation I was turned away in July becuase my hemoglobin was too low. I’ve never been turned away from donating. Note that it was too low to donate but still within normal levels for general life. I went back on my iron pills and splurged on some red meat. Went back in September to try to donate and my hemoglobin had dropped to 10.0 which is too low for normal levels. Plus, in late August I had started getting unusual random bruises. So. I visited my Mom on 9/14-15, I celebrated my birthday on 9/16 (turned 55), and on 9/19 I went to the doctor who took many many vials of blood. On 9/20 the blood panel looked bad which led to more tests on Friday and Tuesday and on Thursday 9/26 they did a bone marrow biopsy. Then LOTS of waiting.
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