On 6 December, I had a wonderful post here. It got posted and then I found a way to delete it. Nice. Now it's nearly the 9th... late on the 8th, and I need to catch things up.
Thursday started at the dentist with a consultation to assess my number face/jaw. As it turns out, my jaw is not numb and it's only my face nerves. So I have a referral to a facial surgeon to take a look. I'll work that later. The neurologist wants to meet again next week so I'll let him poke my face a bit and tell me if that referral is a good one for what I need.
The rest of the day was spent with an IVIG treatment. This will be a monthly IV treatment that works as part of the immune suppression treatment. It's a immuno-globulin transfusion and I'm still needing to read up on this. I've had it before 2.5 years ago after the prednisone sent my platelet count plummeting.
While there on Thursday, the platelets read in at 13K... some still remaining from the Wednesday transfusion.
Friday, I went in for another platelet treatment and started with a 4K platelet count. Not as bad as the 1K or 2K from previous. Hemoglobin was down to 7.5 though, with 8 as the threshold that makes them want to fill me with new blood. I worked against this because I'm feeling like I need to let my body do its work. However, we compromised on one unit instead of the usual two and I got banded for another in case of emergency over the weekend. So far, I'm feeling okay with somewhat degraded energy.
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