I am sitting in my usual spot in front of the big sunny window on side B of the clinic. The patient load seems light here today as many of the Duke blue recliners are empty, at least on this side of the clinic. We are all busy doing computer work or reading or studying something. I am waiting on a bag of platelets to arrive from the hospital since my platelet count is back down to 10,000. The other numbers are almost the same as 2 days ago; my hemoglobin is 9.7 and my white cell count is 0.4. This should be the nadir with my counts going up over the next few days. I was hoping they would be rebounding today so that Holly and I would know for sure that we'd be able to go to Asheville this w-e. It's nice to plan ahead when you can. Now we'll have to wait until Friday to see how the counts are doing and whether we'll get the w-e off from clinic to do some mtn traveling.
I received an email today from my clinic supervisor at Piedmont Health Services. She is pretty sure she will still have a place for me at that center when I return to work in January. Great news! I was worried that I might be re-assigned to a different center due to staffing changes.
It was a little chilly on my run this morning. Felt really good to wear a long sleeve shirt for a change.
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