Met with oncologist yesterday.
I’ve made it one full year now off of chemo and still undetectable results in bloodwork. He’s moving me now to checking blood every three months and only seeing him every 6 months, unless this crap sneaks back.
One full year in treatment free remission. Wow. He told me the odds of not going back on vastly improve iif I make it this far.
It was in fall of 2020 that I tore my pec tendon off my right arm when skinning a tough old dog coyote. I had to have it pinned and stitched back on and it was a long recovery. But my pre op bloodwork showed I had elevated white blood cells. Went back two months after surgery and my white blood cell count had doubled again. More tests and after a bone marrow biopsy (that hurt like (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)) I was positive for chronic myeloid leukemia. Since I was in really good shape from running a lot of half and full marathons up to that point, they put me on a tougher chemo regimen 2x daily. I took that crap every 12 hours, 5:00am and 5;00pm and could never miss. Had immediate success on it and kept taking that for three straight years. My bloodwork was consistently undetectable while on it and so there was enough studies out there that showed patients had about a 50/50 chance of holding their own when going off the chemo. They checked my heart often while on it to make sure I could withstand the side effects of that med.
I never quit trapping through all of that. (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) that coyote saved my life and helped me catch this leukemia early before it had a chance to advance to an acute or blast phase. Once you advance to those phases it can be hard to go back to chronic stage.
Patrice and Zim sent me an awesome cookie care package.
Thank you Tman for all the prayers and support. I’m a lucky guy and lucky to be part of this awesome forum and trapping community.
Jim
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