November 25, 2013.. We missed the snow and ice storm today and I am very thankful for that. We got up at 4:30 this morning and hurried to get ready to go to the hospital. We wanted to get there before problems with the heavy traffic and bad road conditions. We got there at 6:25 and no ice on our route.

My white cell count today was 9.0, hemoglobin-8.9, platelet-152. and HPC-0. I sure wish I knew why my HPC level dropped. I received another unit of blood today. My hemoglobin needs to be above 9.0 to go for collection. I am not clear why they went ahead and gave me the unit of blood since I am not ready to go for collection. 

I continue to be concerned about getting the stem cells collected. This is day 19 of the Neupogen injections. The last attempt at collection in June, they stopped the effort after 21 days of injections. I hope that does not happen this time. The doctor told me during the last collection attempt in June my survival depends on getting the stem cells collected. I talked to an APN today and told her I did not what to halt the effort again. She said she did not think they would as along as I was showing gains in my counts. 

I found out today apheresis is closed on Thursday and Friday this week. They are normally closed on Sunday also. Their holiday schedule almost eliminates my going for collection this week even if my numbers get better.

Before the nurse gave me the evening injections she stopped long enough to say a prayer. I appreciated  her doing that. Like I have said before, this is a special place with special people working here.  

Here we are in Infusion 4 where we go for the injections.

Getting a unit of blood in Infusion 4 today