{"id":57,"date":"2005-08-06T00:22:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2005\/08\/06\/1-week-post-chemo-blood-counts"},"modified":"2005-08-06T00:22:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T07:22:29","slug":"1-week-post-chemo-blood-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/1-week-post-chemo-blood-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"1 week post chemo – blood counts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I went in to the Hutch and had some blood counts done today. I seem to be operating within normal parameters.<\/div>\n
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This is no guarantee that I’ll continue to have a decent white blood cell count by next Friday, but we’ll see. Dr. Petersdorf said there was "at least a fair to middling chance that my white blood cell count will be too low next Friday to do chemo" and that we’ll have to do growth factors. Let’s hope my marrow toughs it out. I’d rather just press on and get this taken care of.<\/div>\n
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I asked that they do a MUGA scan to get a baseline measurement of my heart function so we can tell if the Adriamycin does any damage. So they’re going to do that next week as well. And next time I get the blood work done, they’ll also check my liver enzymes to see how they’re doing. w00t!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went in to the Hutch and had some blood counts done today. I seem to be operating within normal parameters. \u00a0 This is no guarantee that I’ll continue to have a decent white blood cell count by next Friday, but we’ll see. Dr. Petersdorf said there was "at least a fair to middling chance … Continue reading 1 week post chemo – blood counts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/we-interrupt-your-regularly-scheduled-chemo\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"We interrupt your regularly scheduled chemo…","author":"john","date":"August 14, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I went in Friday morning at 8 for my blood work, a MUGA scan, and chemo. 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