Since it's been close to two and half years now since that first visit to the doctor who did the cbc test and called me at home that night and scared the living day lights out of me by saying something was terribly wrong because my white cell count was off the page and they were going to have to send it out to another lab to count it as they didn't have the resources at their small lab to do it, I am not quiet sure what the actual count was when it came back a few days later and he once again called me at home telling me that the cat scan showed a very enlarged spleen and he was sending me back to my regular doctor because he was just a general surgeon and could not treat me. (really all he did was scare me half to death). My regular doctor thought I had diversticulitis in the beginning and treated me with anti-biotics for that but two weeks later he could still feel the swelling in my lower left side (spleen, but he didn't know it) and he sent me to this general surgeon doctor for a second opinion who felt around on me and set up all the tests. It was quiet a harrowing experience to say the least. Anyway, within four days of that first visit with the dr. who called me at home, I was at my first hemo/oncologist and he is the one who told me they had to get the counts down as I was in stroke range. I am pretty sure like Doug's, mine were over the 200,000 range. But I quickly responded to the Hydroxyurea. As far as the bmb and other blood tests done while I was waiting.........I forgot to mention that that lab messed up two different tests and lost one causing me to have to go through retesting. That is when my husband decided to work it where he could get me in to the Sitemen Cancer Center in St. Louis. I loved the first doctor I saw there. He told us that where the other oncologist saw maybe one or two patients a week with CML, he probably saw a hundred a day. I felt so very much better knowing that. Plus, I've never had a problem with any of the blood testings or with how they do their BMB as they have a set up where you are in and out in probably fortyfive minutes and they are virtually pain free. (Yippee for me). So, all of those problems with the first lab could be the reason for why it took me at least three weeks before getting results showing PH+.
Now, people, I have a new delimma (sp.?). I just found out that I have been shifted to now another new doctor within my group. This will be my fourth at this facility since beginning there in March of 2004. This is a woman and her name is Dr. Amanda Cashen. Does anyone know of her and is there any way I can check up on her before going. I go for my next app. July 10th and I am to have a BMB that day as well. Thanks for any information that you all give, it really does help so very much. I agree with the person who said that we had to "take control" of the CML and not let it control us. Keep Looking up, Suzieq _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [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 CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
