Maria,
This had to be the worst time in your life. Thank you for sharing it with us.
You have evidently come a long way and I am waiting for Part 2. We all gain
strength from seeing the strength displayed by all the other CML warriors.
Joyce in IL
On Jul 15, 2014, at 6:14 PM, mariacash...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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...
>
>
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