Day +20

My Blood Count Today:
Red Blood Count (RBC) 99(Normal 130-180)
Platelet 18(Normal 150-50)
White Blood Count (WBC) =1.8 (Normal 4 - 11)

I am fine today. The white blood count increase by 0.5 to 1.8. This is the best increase so far. Hopefully, it will be more than 2.0 by tomorrow. The platelet also increase from 15 to 18, an increase without platelet transfusion first time ever. Meanwhile, the red blood count also increased from 95 to 99.

The doctor will do a Bone Marrow Aspiration(BMA) for me tomorrow. This is my 7th BMA. A needle will be inserted into the back of one of my hipbones to draw a liquid sample of the bone marrow for analysis. I always requested the doctor to put me to sleep before the procedure or else it will be very painful.

I sleep most of the day because I am too sleepy. I am afraid I started to be like my sister who donated the stem cells to me. She is very hardworking but also always very sleepy. We used to do homework and revision on the same table while we were schooling long time ago. I always like to sit at her opposite side, facing her. She would start to become very busy after sitting down - not busy doing the revision but busy "mengantuk"(continuous bowed down her head due to sleepiness) with a book wide open in front of her. Since bowing is a sign of respect, so I enjoyed her continuous respect while I was studying or doing my homework. We advised her to go sleep but because she was so hardworking, she always refused to go to sleep. She would like to continue to study and at the end she ended up with her continuous act of respecting me for hours. So you can see how respectable am I :-)

But now I am as sleepy as her. If we sit opposite to each other, you will be amazed how much this pair of brother and sister respecting each other by bowing their head to each other continuously :-)

See you next post:-)