Today is devoted to the Neupogen injection. A brand name for filgrastim, Neupogen helps me grow neutrophils, which are the little guys that fight off bacterial infections. Colorful, eh? (copied from wikipedia... so it's subject to that level of accuracy).
While I like fighting off infections... I surely don't like the joint pain this little sucker causes... hitting my hip joint last night and who knows what I'll get tonight. It's a three-day regimen I get when my level dips below 0.7... yesterday it was 0.38, so today I got the second of three shots.
No other tests today, but I did receive my textbook called Janeway's ImmunoBiology. I'll be reading this sucker for days, learning about how innate and adaptive immune responses work. Maybe I'll uncover why my poor little platelets and, now, other blood cells are under blitzkrieg.
The bone marrow excavation hole is a bit swollen but seems okay from yesterday.
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