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	<title>A Spork in the Road &#187; Hodgkin&#8217;s Status Update</title>
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		<title>Counts Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My counts inched up a little this week, out of the &#8220;Critical&#8221; range and back into plain ol&#8217; &#8220;Low.&#8221; My nurse said, &#8220;They&#8217;ll come back up eventually, I promise!&#8221; But she wasn&#8217;t worried and didn&#8217;t even mention shots, which made me happy.
I still don&#8217;t feel peppy, but I don&#8217;t feel so strung out as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Counts, High Counts, Red Counts, White Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know what my counts are today (lacking a personal laboratory here at the office), but I&#8217;m certainly feeling better than I was earlier in the week.
I&#8217;ve been told one cannot feel when one&#8217;s white blood cell count is low. Poppycock. You know that feeling you get when you realize you&#8217;re fighting some kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracked On Its Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blood counts are down today from last week. Neutrophils are hovering at the bottom of &#8220;normal&#8221; range, but my overall counts were down to 2.4 (marked simply with a &#8220;C&#8221; in the margin of my blood work sheet: &#8220;C&#8221; for &#8220;Critical&#8221;).
Neulasta works. It also retails around $7,000 per shot. An Everest of a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addled &amp; Grouchy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;was how I felt all week. The initial rush of being done with chemo has worn off, and I&#8217;ve still got all sorts of weird stuff flushing out of my body. I was irrationally angry all week: irritable, easily provoked. Not fun to be around.
Then this morning I woke up and felt fine again.
So weird.
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		<title>Getting Better All the Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I have a follow-up with my oncologist and then head into the fourth week since my last chemo.
I still taste metal, but my aches and pains have largely subsided and my physical and mental fatigue levels are improving daily. My appetite has quickly returned to normal, and my various bodily functions seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Groovy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had my blood work on Tuesday, and my white counts were very low. So I&#8217;ve been doing Neupogen this week to rescue my immune system.
The last couple days I&#8217;ve finally been feeling peppy again. They say you can&#8217;t feel when your white counts are low, but I&#8217;ll tell you, I felt like I&#8217;d been wrung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Post]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not EVER, one hopes. The last waturday after chemo, though. The last dopey, cotton-headed, rotten-mouthed, achy jointed, hot flashing Saturday after chemo.
Saturday I was fatigued: as in, I got out of breath from standing. As in, walking across a parking lot required a force of will. As in, I could close my eyes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last chemo fog, and so easier for me to bear. A fog nonetheless. Sluggish brain, neurons trying to fire through taffy. Taste buds asleep: Powerade tastes different from water while being entirely flavorless. 
I can taste feta cheese and onions. If you can&#8217;t taste feta cheese and onions, you&#8217;re probably dead.
Waiting for steroids to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last chemo is over.
Now, we wait three months and do another PET scan. Hope that the cancer is gone for good. Then regular PET scans, spreading out to every six months and then to every year and then, at the five year mark, I&#8217;m proclaimed cured.
Next step: fight the insurance company, which of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to quote Jean Valjean and company.
Tomorrow is my last chemo. (At least, I hope so!) I am very, very excited.
With my oncologist&#8217;s blessing (and despite my nurses&#8217; protestations), I&#8217;m skipping my last Neulasta shot. If my white blood cell counts plunge too far, I&#8217;ll have to do daily Neupogen shots, but I&#8217;m hoping to get [...]]]></description>
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