As I sit here with my morning coffee I am thinking how my life could change dramatically this week. If the bone marrow biopsy shows I have relapsed, I will be turned back into a leukemia patient just as quickly as that pumpkin turned into a carriage. My doctor has told me I'll have to start the gruesome treatment all over again.
The reaction of the doctor in charge of the clinical study has me worried. I know he is being cautious by ordering the bone marrow biopsy. He wants to rule out a relapse before deciding what to do about the low platelet levels. It's been 8 months since I was declared "in remission". I have a graph that shows this is the time period when most people relapse. The slope of the line is very steep as people turn back into pumpkins.
The graph shows that if I make it 2 years without a relapse I'm home free...free to push the idea of mortality back into the deep recess of conciousness where it belongs. That's where I want to be!
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