Setting a New Platelet Record!!!

I realize I didn't post my counts last week, so I'll post them now along with this week's fantastic counts I got today.

WBC
last week: 11.1
today: 5.8 (still in normal range)

HgB
last week: 11.8
today: 11.5

And the MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL:
platelets
last week: 32
today: 118 !!!!!!!!!!!!! Triple digits!!!!!!!! It's been YEARS since I've had platelets in the triple digits. (Theme from "Rocky" playing in the background as I bound up the apartment steps...) Definitely time to go hiking again on BIG ROCKS!

It has now been almost 8 weeks since my LAST platelet transfusion.

Also Dr Lestingi says that my nodes seem to be shrunken down to the level they were 2 or 3 years ago. At the end of the chemo cycles (2 more to go) I'll get a CAT scan for a more scientific measure of the nodes, but we are very happy with the estimate. Dr L joked that we should send these results to that transplant doc who said my bone marrow would never recover without a transplant. HA! Showed him! Try to scare me, will he? Try to write me off? I ain't done yet. :-)