Wind wolf army

Hi Folks,
At last things are looking up! While Thursday eve was a bit of a low as i was moved into an isolation room after they discovered bugs in me, since Friday there has been signs of change for the better. Definitely some healing of my mouth had started and the weird lesions on my legs stared to shrink. But the most exciting thing was at lunch time one of the docs came rushing in with the days blood test result. "Your neutraphils have come back, 0.6! Well considering they have been 0.0 since i started treatment and for the last 9 days of recovery after chemo, this was almost unbelievable news! In fact, it was news i was cautious about. After all, it was only one result, and although i could tell i was improving, what if the next one came back zero again. Best to not get too excited. Yet. The neutraphils returning is so important, i was paranoid my stem cells that produce these nuetralphils (white cells) could have been knocked out by the leukemia overcrowding my bone marrow and then by the chemo. So maybe were gone - that is very unlikely but you worry, trust me.
So yesterday I was not scheduled a blood test, I was disappointed, I did not think I could wait two more days. I asked the docs on their round if one could be squeezed in and he said actually it was not a bad idea to take one, so I had another routine test yesterday. As the test was mid day, the result was not available until this morning. So yesterday was another day of waiting, but again more healing in my mouth and leg lesions so all good signs my army was back.
This morning feeling pretty good, after a shower at least as i seem to sleep with raging sweats - often change me Jammie's mid way through the night. Its 10:30an and my docs just came round. Now just to explain, it is important that the neutraphils rise above 1.o before the next stage can be considered. for a healthy adult I am told the range is 1.0 to 8 ish. So anyway, the docs were grinning, as the lovely neutraphils have now gone up again, 0.6 had been a huge jump the day before, but i was not expecting this: "They are now 4.5!!!!!!" Woo hoo, Goooooaaaaaaaaaala! Back of the net!

I can't help thinking the full moon and this huge weather storm, which is now battering the NE coast, is aat least partly responsible for such a speedy blood recovery. I always get hyper when they both coincide, Michelle call's me a wind-wolf!!

On that subject, boys, I hope Cruden Bay is epic today, you should get some epic down the line waves. Rip it up!

That's me well happy today. Yup I am still sore, but the army is back, and now running round fixing the last 3 weeks of carnage :)

cheers,
Martin

End of day update: Todays full blood report was Hb 110, platelets 217 ( I came in with 20), white total 5.0, neutraphils 3.7. So the full bloods are looking really good at this stage, and although the neutraphils may have ebbed a little, this is probably because I have just come of their growth stimulus drug, so 3.7 is still an amazing amount. The only down side at the moment, and very frustrating it is too, is that i have picked up a nasty bacterial gut infection which now needs to be dealt with, everything else is improving daily.