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Journey to Remission: Day to Day

Good Monday Morning Everyone!!

I also want to set two rules for our collective interaction, that I have a tendency to over look sometimes. If you are a high school student from PWC, O’Donel, or Booth you’ll know my one rule when giving a personal presentation – you can ask me anything, and so far I have never been asked a question I wasn’t prepared to answer. I fully intend for this forum to be open and honest, and while I may not have the energy to respond to you individually, I will always give my best effort to answer your questions in the group messages. And the second “rule” I’d like to ask that you keep in mind, is that for the most part I don’t put any great planning into these messages, I most always sit with my computer, maybe a little classic R&R, and flow my thoughts onto the screen, thus there will often be spelling and grammar errors. Hopefully if my high school language teacher can excuse so can the rest of you!! Thanks.

Today, at present, I am receiving my last bag of Mo for this leg of the journey. I am thinking we’ll part ways at around 3-4 this aft, at which point in time it appears that I will be staying as I had originally thought, before coming to hospital a week ago. Dr. Scully – a name you will get used to – feels that this is the best place for me, and she feels that if I continue to feel as well as I am then I can have day-passes to explore the outside world. An approach that I am very comfortable with, assuming we straighten out the process for moving us “neutropenic” Patients away from the construction that will commence later this week. We’ll explore that process, I’ll explore, later today and most probably in “grand rounds” later today.

Physically I am still feeling as well at this point of my journey as at any point similar during my original Series. My blood counts, hemoglobin and platelets are dropping, but not too fast, while my white cells are near the basement and I fully expect to see the basement within a couple of days. Thus putting a tighter grasp on my number of visitors, as I’ll continue to be super prone to infections. And while they are near inevitable as I have explained, the longer I can go without one the better, and some little “sniffle” would be better than a “fungal” infection, which I have had experience with. Of course we don’t get to go to the board and pick which we want, so my “day to day” mind-set will serve me well here. My mouth has started to show some signs of Mo’s influence, as Mo really acts and takes action on my quick growing/dividing cells, not just the Leukemia cells, but all quick growth – thus the loss of hair for those of us who don’t shave anyway, although that loss of hair happens everywhere!! haha. The other area of the body that is most always affected is your mouth and digestive tract, as it is quite delicate. It is common to get a really sore mouth during time with Mo, and also very common to have lots of digestion troubles, while I’ve had some minor bouts of these, nothing compared to some past experiences, yet. I’ll keep you posted, and for now please now that I’m feeling as well physically as I ever have at this point during my original Series, my mind is very strong, and I’m very comfortable with the past 7 days, and looking forward to continuing the journey. You can count on hearing from me again soon.

Last housekeeping note, you can always by-pass the password section by going straight to the “RealTime News” section of the website, which you can to from the main toolbar on every screen, I will have a link to the latest Journey Message, as well as My Journey Images, which I will try to keep up to date as we progress down the road. Both are there now, any questions or comments you know you can always reach me here as I’m never very far from my computer.

Have a great day.

Always…
Live Life. Love Life.

Geoff

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