By the time I saw the infectious disease doctor the next day, I was feeling pretty lousy. The fever, nausea and general malaise (this is the medical term for feeling yucky) was pretty much how I was living my day to day. I knew that my pancytopenia was back because my urine looked awful (the …
Infection, have you, I think…
By the point I was seeing the Vanderbilt doctor (Dr. Yoda from this point on), I really wasn't feeling too bad.. but Dr. Yoda was going to wean me off my steroids (remember I said that steroids mask many other disorders and can even make some things worse) so they needed to stop. At that …
Cancer, have you, I think
There comes a time when you just know that things aren't going smoothly anymore. I had been working with my doctors several weeks to no avail. It was becoming more apparent that the doctors that I had just didn't know what to do. And that's ok. So how do you know when it is time …
Guess who’s coming to Dinner?
So we were going on 3 weeks with no diagnosis and really no new information. My fever had stopped for now, but my spleen, it kept gobbling up everything that my very robust and healthy bone marrow could make. I was better, but not really (steroids mask problems). I knew that the steroids at some …
Glittered Path 