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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1026866" data-attributes="member: 707">Angelsboi, you're hurting right now, and I respect that.  But I suggest that you check your facts before calling someone misinformed. 200 is the point at which technology can no longer register white blood cells to count.  Once you hit 200 going downward, the machines can't accurately measure your count.  If you don't believe me, please feel free to contact Dr. Margaret O'Donnell at the City of Hope Cancer Treatment Center, Duarte CA, where I've been receiving treatment for the last year and a half.Ah, it becomes clearer now.  I was thrown because you said your count was 10 earlier.  I've been sent home with a 2.5 or so count before.  That number actually means 2500, btw.  And 4.0-10.5 (4000-10500) are an ordinary person's counts.  My last count, (I've been out of the hospital for a couple months now,) was 6000.  I was pretty happy to be in 'normal' range again.I'm sure it is.  At which point, you'll get to know the hepa-filtered room.  Though I hope that your treatment means you can avoid that, and its inherent risks.  Because leukemia is a cancer of the blood (and specifically, white blood cells) its treatment involves actively killing off the cancerous white blood cells with chemotherapy.  This leaves the patient with a reduced (and at times non-existant) white-blood cell count, until the body can produce more (hopefully healthy) cells to replinish the supply.  As a result, I'm well-acquainted with the hepa-room myself.Ouch.  I had the same problem.  I was coming back from Japan, and didn't have insurance when I was first diagnosed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  But it all worked out in the end, and I hope and pray it does for you as well.Anyway, I posted my note to offer encouragement, and to show you that others have come out of such ordeals, and that you can and will as well.  I didn't mean this to turn into an argument when this thread should be about offering support, so I'll leave now, having given what support I can. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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