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Today was my one-week follow-up at City of Hope, and everything seems pretty peachy. My counts are down since I’m no longer getting meds that artificially stimulate white blood cell production, but even without the meds my counts are all within the normal range and will likely be even better at my next follow-up. Every other lab result was positive too. I will remain fatigued for some time, but the extreme fatigue should last only another week or two. We hope.

Assuming that I have no setbacks, the next real milestone will be a bone marrow biopsy at the end of June to see if I’ve achieved total remission. I will then have to decide if I want to begin Revlimid maintenance therapy, which I’m very much undecided on at the moment (my doctor is all in favor). Other than that, I just wait to get better.

For my follow-up visit today I was directed to the DEM clinic. I wonder how they knew? And where do Republicans go? I guess it’s a secret. But I’ll bet their clinic is pretty nice. Probably open bar and free massages while you wait.

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