Well, Darn!

Looks like the nice weekend I just had, I will be spending all of tomorrow in the aphoresis center (NOT my favorite place, as it is one big room, no windows and lots of lined-up chairs and blaring tvs).

My platelet count at noon today was down to 6 and my hemoglobin was down to 8.5 and I was exhausted from coming off prednisone. They decided not to wait to see if my HgB would rise again, since I'm approaching the nadir after chemo last week and wasn't able to have a Procrit shot lately.

So tomorrow, starting at 9:30 am, I will be sitting in an uncomfortable (too big) recliner chair, trying not to go nuts with daytime trash tv shows all around me (3 different tvs with potentially 3 different obnoxious programs running at the same time!) and getting 2 units of blood and 1 unit of platelets. Probably about 5-6 hours worth. Yuck. I'm still hoping there will be a cancellation in the chemo wing and they'll let me have my usual nice private bedroom looking out on the garden...

Well, at least being on prednisone last week helped me feel a lot better and this blood problem is directly linked to the low point post-chemo. Time to practice my bouncing back again.