Well guys, here is how it all started, and how I was diagnosed.
I am an anthropologist (physical anthropologist and archeologist), a wife and a mother. Of course, I am used to working hard, almost like a slave (all mom’s are J). I guess about 7 years ago, I started feeling a little more tired than usual...I mean, field work is hard, working from 7:30 AM until 3:00 PM at construction sites doing archaeological monitoring, pickup my daughter at 4:00 PM or so and spending the rest of the day with her, cooking, waiting for my husband to come home from work. Putting the kid to sleep at night. Then, I would have to write my reports and if lucky, slept a couple of hours to start a new day… Mom can’t get sick…I started to feel more tired than usual, heavy night sweats, pain in the back, left side just above the waist…Doctors said it was nothing, probably my imagination…It got to the point that I would come home exhausted. I couldn’t even do house work. I would move the furniture to sweep and mop, then I had to sit for half an hour in order to be able to put everything back in place, Once I had my white blood count high and my doctor told me that that only meant that I had an infection… On December 18th 2011 I had to go to the ER of my nearest hospital. After examination and testing, xrays, ct, etc, they even considered sending me home until the CBC arrived. I was hospitalized just when the x-mass season was getting good and my 14 year old was on vacation from school. WE had so many plans that were never accomplished!!!! Knowing that my daughter was suffering my absence was the main factor that gave strength specially because not even my family came through. We were and still are just 3, my husband, my daughter and I… I was then transferred from the hospital I was in to a government operated hospital area known here in Puerto Rico as CENTRO MEDICO. The HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ADULTOS has a specialized unit for leukemia patients. THEY SAVED MY LIFE. I had my first bone marrow aspiration and biopsy done at the first hospital. Results were in soon, 2 days or so and results were given to my husband to take over to the new hospital. Results were horrible, although at that time I didn’t pay much attention to them. Thank GOD I did not!!! I would have given up then and there. Final Diagnosis: *Comprehensive Assessment: BLAST PHASE OF CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA WITH T(9,22) AND DELETION OF 9Q.* The patients peripheral blood smear shows markedly increased blasts. The bone marrow core biopsy also reveals a large population of blasts; including 80% of the maroow spaces. The blasts are small to intermediate in size with high N:C ratio, immature chromatin and a small amount of cytoplasm with occasional cytoplasmic granules… the blasts are positive for MPO,CD66, LYSOZYME with no significant expression of CD34 AND CD117… PRONOSTICATING RESISTANCE TO TYROSINE INASE INHIBITORS AND UNFAVOURABLE PROGNOSIS… -- -- [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 cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
