Monday, June 2, 2014

Sick - yech

I started feeling a little bit iffy last night.  This morning i woke up and felt pretty nasty - headache (I only get them when I am really sick), cough, congestion and fever.  I think I have a cold.  What concerns me about is is my low white blood cell count.  I was at a 2.4 a couple of weeks ago when I went to the oncologist.  It still isn't normal.  They can't tell me why it isn't normal.

I have had a full body CT scan to look for tumors which showed nothing.  I have been to Duke Bone Marrow Transplant Center and the doctor there told me I had something that was just taking me longer to recover from than the standard textbook scenario.  That was over a year ago.  

Now I am thinking about the possibility of having some type of autoimmune disease but my oncologist tells me that there is not a direct way to test for that.  I am not really showing any symptoms of an autoimmune disease.

I just hope I recover from this cold quickly.

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