Valentinex2's blog

Today I have been at the hosp getting levels checked and my consultant is pleased at my stability -esp with white cell count and my length of time on this earth may well be a fair bit longer than we at first thought! That's the first bit of good news I've had since I was diagnosed 6 weeks ago. Maybe I had better stop spending so much money! However will still continue to play on it with regards to household chores…

Morning all - well me and my eleven platelets have survived another weekend. Had a good day in Edinburgh out for lunch with my two sons ( One is 31 and the other is 36 - I am only 57 but I started young - looks like I will finish the same way so maybe it's just as well! ) Also that's husband's night shift stint finished for a while - no longer have to worry about him coming in to find corpse as corpse will be lying…

Hi All again As some of you know I have AML and actually feel extremely well - I have been reading some of your blogs where you are worrying about platelets crashing to 200. Well - when I went for bloods last Wed my platelets were sitting at 11! I am going next Fri for blood transfusion which will probably put them up slightly. What I can't understand is how I am still alive - perhaps I am an alien? I went out tonight…

As already I stated I was only diagnosed with AML a few weeks ago - fortunately my family although shattered are all grown up - must be so hard for those of you who are seriously ill and have young children to care for. Anyway I have decided to look on my illness as an unwelcome guest and call him Luke - I didn't want Luke here at all - but now I have to learn to live with him. The thing he hates most is me being happy…

Hello everyone - I was diagnosed five weeks ago with AML - it was a terrible shock as I had been out cycling and felt a bit faint - when I got back to the house still felt a it off - blood tests and bone marrow came up with AML. I am a very young and fit 57 - or should say I was. Apparently because of my bizarre chromozomes chemo only had a very slin chance of a cure - 2-4% so I decided not to put myself through hell…