Finally…After 5 weeks of weekly CBCs, I finally have an ANC (absolute neutrophil count) from today’s blood draw that is acceptable – it’s at 1200, up from 858 last week so this is great news.  The best news of all is I can get back on the program and start chemotherapy tomorrow night.  I still have to contend with some abnormal aspects of my blood work, namely my white and red cell counts that are low but one of the most important counts, the neutrophil %, was up considerably.  By virtue of that increase I’m able to start back on Temodar which was the overall objective all along.

Thanks to everyone who prayed about this.  Going from 1500 down to sub-1000 to 850, I started to think that perhaps this might be the end of the chemotherapy road so-to-speak but I am glad that didn’t happen.  I felt like it was getting into the 9th inning with a runner in scoring position – and finally a double into the gap after a long drought and we scored!

Time to move forward and start back although I will have to say it will be a little odd after being off treatment for 5 weeks.

That’s all for now.

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