Frank’s Corner

While the title is a mouthful, it really about says it all in covering my last 4 months.

It all started back in the first week of October when I saw my Dr. for a routine 3 month checkup. The Blood work that visit and then from an in office cyst removal ( the next Monday) showed a “sudden” drop in platelets to about 50,000. Blood taken on follow up visit 3 days later show a drop to below 30,000 and got me a call to come back in. Just looking at me Doc. said he was admitting me to the Hospital. Platelet count at hospital was below 7,000 - received transfusion of 2 units platelets and was started on 70 mgr Prednisone a day. The following day after a Cat Scan I was released with a platelet count of 235,000. The next Monday (October 18) I had bone marrow taken for a biopsy, which rather then show the cause of the low platelet counts showed that I have “Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (est 20%)”. Of course I was given this news at my next visit with the Dr. at the Oncology group October 31.

I know I’m getting tired, I just read over this and I’m asking myself why am I writing this? And I guess I hope its mostly to get things straight in my own head. But also because, although I’ve done allot of reading on CLL I really haven’t found anything of practical use as to what to expect as time goes on and maybe someone out there can give me that information. Or possibly there’s someone like myself just looking for what’s ahead and reading this will put at least 2 of us in the same boat. Anyway I am tired and need to get some sleep, I’ll think on it and be back later - tomorrow not 3 months from now.

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