We finally made it! The flight down was great, the kids warmed up to us real quick. When people ask me what I saw in Texas over the weekend, I tell them "Two cherubic little faces." Clark scored big on his birthday getting both an elephant and a trike. Eva has a cute personality and she loves to talk...in some language.
We gave Ben and Jan an opportunity to do some jogging without pushing two kids along in front of them, and we went to a pre-rodeo fair, I could have taken my hat!
The flight back was delayed in Dallas, but we finally got home and got to bed by about 1:00 AM. Thanks Em for being our driver.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
diagnosis
I swore off these blog things because I didn't see much point to them. Generally what I have to say I'll say to the individual that is interested in listening. But just for kicks I think I'll follow up on my last blog in April and inform the uninformed world that I finally discovered what might have triggered that chest congestion back in April. It was a long and complex puzzle, I went to 3 different doctors because I just couldn't get over the bronchites stuff. I also had to limit my running because I went from doing a mile every other morning to doing 1/2 a block then having to walk because I couldn't get enough air. Then my feet kept falling asleep. I would lay down at night and my feet would go numb and feel cold from the inside. The next exciting complication was feeling a hard lump in my left side under my ribs.
On Dec 22 I got an appt with Dr. Durrans, he checked me over. They sucked some blood and set me up with a CAT scan for the next morning. The 23rd I went into Orem Community Hospital and got the scan about 7:30 (after drinking copious amounts of cranberry juice laced with something). By 10:30 Durrans was calling me and suggesting I come back and see him and bring Susan, she was at work so she couldn't come. He informed me that my spleen was a whopper maybe 5 times the normal size, thus the pressure on my circulatory system and the lump. He had also discovered from the blood work that I had 220,000 white blood cells per something when I was only supposed to have about 7,000. He had already set me an appt for an oncologist, which I soon discovered was a cancer doctor.
This time Susan met me at the Central utah Cancer Clinic, they sucked some more blood. Did a little exam, then placed me face down on those little tables and stuck giant needles in my back, and into my hip bone to suck out some marrow. By 5:00 I was downing some chemo pills and had been partially diagnosed with CML. Chronic Meg..... Leukemia, which I was told was "the good kind".
Since the 23rd of Dec. I have been taking oral chemo with no apparent side effects (I still have my hair) and I actually started jogging again and got clear around the block!! I also played basketball with the guys I've been playing with the past 17 years and they said my game had improved with the disease, which indicates where it was before.
On Dec 22 I got an appt with Dr. Durrans, he checked me over. They sucked some blood and set me up with a CAT scan for the next morning. The 23rd I went into Orem Community Hospital and got the scan about 7:30 (after drinking copious amounts of cranberry juice laced with something). By 10:30 Durrans was calling me and suggesting I come back and see him and bring Susan, she was at work so she couldn't come. He informed me that my spleen was a whopper maybe 5 times the normal size, thus the pressure on my circulatory system and the lump. He had also discovered from the blood work that I had 220,000 white blood cells per something when I was only supposed to have about 7,000. He had already set me an appt for an oncologist, which I soon discovered was a cancer doctor.
This time Susan met me at the Central utah Cancer Clinic, they sucked some more blood. Did a little exam, then placed me face down on those little tables and stuck giant needles in my back, and into my hip bone to suck out some marrow. By 5:00 I was downing some chemo pills and had been partially diagnosed with CML. Chronic Meg..... Leukemia, which I was told was "the good kind".
Since the 23rd of Dec. I have been taking oral chemo with no apparent side effects (I still have my hair) and I actually started jogging again and got clear around the block!! I also played basketball with the guys I've been playing with the past 17 years and they said my game had improved with the disease, which indicates where it was before.
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