Jan 22

Hi Everyone! I went for my bone marrow biopsy today. This one hurt. I don't know what she did differently, but it did hurt. The whole process takes only about 5 minutes and it wasn't unbearable, but I'm still feeling soreness at 6:30pm. They first use a small needle and inject you with lidocain (to numb you) at the point in your lower back/upper bottom where you can actually feel the bone there. It's about 3 inches from the middle. Then they use about a 6 inch needle and inject more numbing stuff close to the bone. They then cut a small incision in the area and insert a sharpened tube type of thing (like the terminology?) that they push thru your bone and into the marrow. As far as we can tell when they pull the tube out, the marrow comes with it in the tube and they put it and the blood on many slides to test. Most of this was told to me by Debby because I couldn't see what was going on (thank goodness!!! LOL!). Anyway, I don't think the doctor is going to tell me the results until next Monday when I have an appointment with her. They also took a blood test for my counts and found that my counts are all pretty much back to normal so I can eat anything I want now, cool! My doctor said it would be one to two weeks until I have to go back into the hospital for my next chemo session. I went to the retirement office and filled out the paperwork to retire on May 1st. Then I went to my work to see the guys and take my personal belongings home. It was nice to be back there (in a visitor's role! LOL!) and great to see the guys again.