[mood| Relieved ]

I'm home from Montana, and I finally went into the doctor today and got the results of my biopsy. Thankfully, my doctor told me right away that the biopsy looked normal...my cells looked normal, no signs of infection in my bone marrow, no signs of pathology...he essentially told me that everything real serious has been ruled out. Needless to say, that was such a relief to hear and I feel so much better knowing that now!

However, because he didn't find anything...he's still not exactly sure why my WBC is so low. But the first thing he's done is taken me off Valtrex, a medication I've been taking for my cankersores, because there's good reason to suspect that it may be causing my WBC to drop. And so now with that out of my system, we'll be monitoring my WBC to see if it makes a difference...I'll go in every month to a clinic get tested. By the end of three months, if my WBC has gone up again, he's not going to worry about it. But if it still hasn't gone up at all and is still really low like it is now, he'll probably start giving me injections of white blood cells to boost my count. Given that he can't find anything serious...he did say that sometimes people just have this problem, and there's no real cause of it...and if this is the case with me, I'll just have to get injections once in awhile. And obviously they will keep monitoring me closely for improvement, and to make sure that nothing else turns up. The main thing is that I still have to be careful to avoid infection, because I'm still at a high risk while my WBC is still low. But I suppose we'll get it all figured out as we go...for right now, this is most definitely good news.

So anyway, that's my story! I'm just so relieved to know that they didn't find anything serious and that I appear to be healthy otherwise.

I just want to thank everyone again for his/her support and concern throughout this whole ordeal. It has meant a great deal to me! I'll still keep this blog updated with anything new I may learn, and what happens over the course of the next few months. :-)