Four days ago my ANC (the count that shows how my immune system is doing) was 0 like it has been for the past three and a half weeks. On Monday it moved up to 15 and my doctors told me not to get excited because it could go right back down. Well yesterday morning my ANC is 76! My doctor came in saying how she is having hope that the count will continue to go up and that I will more than likely be out of the hospital by Monday. Today it did drop to 42 but that is totally expected and the docs think it will go up and down but still trend up. Once I'm out of the hospital I'll stay in a house outside the hospital but can take some day trips home. Once I recover a little more I'll have a bone marrow biopsy to see how much the chemo did to get rid of the cancer.
My nurse today came in and told me that I can't let the cancer take over my life and that its all temporary and while I didn't want to admit it he was completely true. It seems like such a long time from now that this will be over and its overwhelming to think about but also this one month has gone by so fast it seems. I can only hope that at the end of this it seems like a blink of an eye. The days may be long but the weeks are short.
