Good Counts Today

I was quite happy with my counts today. It looks good to go for my treatment next Monday, assuming they keep up this way. I'm hoping treatment will be next week so that I'm not on prednisone for Thanksgiving.

WBC 8.1 (normal)
HgB 12.9 (normal, and not with any Procrit for the last two weeks!)
platelets 85 (doubled since Friday! Yippee!)

Since my counts were so good today, I don't have to go in again this week. Just show up for my doctor's appointment and (hopefully) chemo next Monday morning.

I am getting put back on Elavil because of nerve pain and sleep disruptions. I had been on it, but we discontinued it a couple of weeks ago when we were getting rid of unneeded drugs to help lower my liver enzymes. Since going off of it, the neuropathy has worsened and I'm not sleeping nearly enough 3 out of 4 nights. I'm quite happy to resume it.

also because of the worsening neuropathy, we are discussing discontinuing the vincristine weekly doses and just doing it with the whole mix every 3-4 weeks. That's in effect what we've done this time, but not planned that way. Sounds like it's time to make it a plan. I'll see what Dr Lestingi says on Monday.