{"id":49,"date":"2005-08-19T19:34:35","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2005\/08\/19\/chemo-26-complete"},"modified":"2005-08-19T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T02:34:35","slug":"chemo-26-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/chemo-26-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemo 2\/6 complete"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After spending a morning in meetings, I went for a delightful lunch with Heather (Indian Buffet followed by Ice Cream Cow Chips) and negotiated the vending of Dungeon Siege II. So that was a thumbs up outing if I’ve ever had one.<\/div>\n
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I dropped Heather back at The Code Mines and swapped her for Ali, who hanged out at The Hutch with me while I got my infusion. My neutrophils are back with a vengeance! They went from 420 \/ uL to 17,240 \/ uL (normal is 1800-7000).<\/div>\n
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So I’m pretty much indestructible at this point.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, the infusion was uneventful. I’m back home now. Just had a couple of slices of leftover pizza and 7 of the crazy vitamins my mother sent. I feel fline. The side effects don’t really start to hit until tomorrow, but hopefully I can manage some gyros and comics anyway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending a morning in meetings, I went for a delightful lunch with Heather (Indian Buffet followed by Ice Cream Cow Chips) and negotiated the vending of Dungeon Siege II. 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