Hi Marty we love you too!!! We are all fighters and we will keep in fighting. You are a walking legend for everyone!! Keep writing your book-it's a treasure as you are.
Prayers & Blessings Jeanie 18's 🐠🐠 > On Feb 14, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jeanie, > > Life is a complicated process. > > Having hemoglobin counts under 8 is a "hard rock" to chew on. I know because > my usual hemoglobin counts are usually under 10 but since my kidneys no > longer produce the hormone that goes into the bone marrow to help produce my > hemoglobin my doctors give me a shot of either Procrit or Epogen (usually > epogen because it costs less but still does the job it is designed for) to > help my hemoglobin rise. With those shots my counts get up to eleven or so > and last a couple of months. However your hemoglobin level has to be > monitored because to much epogen/procrit can cause a stroke. > > In my case it may be different because my kidneys are what is causing this > problem and as soon as I receive a kidney transplant the kidney should > hopefully take care of this problem and relieve me of any further procrit or > epogen. > > Until then I must live on a complicated sky walking wire. If I were to get > any blood transfusions then my antigens may become more then zero which they > are now in spite of having 96 blood transfusions during and right after my > bone marrow transplant which was more then 25 years ago, which is not the > best result for a kidney transplant. > > However all of my doctors are amazed as to why I am still zero antigen level > with all of my previous blood, platelet, and globulin transfusions/infusions > Sometimes things may come back to bite me in the Azz, but hey, at least I > got these 25 years so far. > > This seems to avoid any blood transfusions, but everyone is different so why > don't you ask your onc about this? (a regimen of either procrit or epogen) > > I mean how much have I learned by going through all of this? And how much > more will I be able to learn by going through a kidney transplant? I hope a > lot more for a long time. > > 18's Jeanie and everyone else, you just keep on keeping on things will get > better. > > I love all of you! <35D.gif> > > Marty > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
