Dallas,
Three months to go and you are half way through. I feel for you. Hang in there buddy. Are you using one of those new drugs that boost your systems during treatment? If so does it help?
Jim
I'm being treated for MDS, which is basically a cancer in the bone marrow that prevents the marrow from producing mature red cells, white cells, platelets, etc. The medicine seems to be working because the red cell and platelet counts have srarted up and the white cell count has stoped falling. Each round of chemo knocks everything back down for a while before it starts back up. I've had three transfusions of a total of five pints of blood when I was at my weakest. Before the transfusions, I'd be exhausted and out of breath after walking a few yards because I didn't have enough red cells to carry oxygen to the muscles. Now the benefits of the transfusions are unnecessary and I'm okay to walk 100 yards or so because the marrow is producing more good stuff. The aim of the meds is to get my body to make enough of the good blood stuff to go back to a normal life.
Sorry, now you know more than you wanted to know about my problem.
I think I'm at the point where I can assemble some hives, frames, etc., and get on with things. I'm looking forward to coming to the next bee fest. I would have been there this year, But I was afraid to be around people because of low resistance to germs in an airplane.