Carol's AML Pages: Best of "Spam"

Carol's AML Pages
Best of "Spam" Volume #1

Updated May 2, 2004

Overview Includes update 4/11/04

Volume #2 From relapse (3/04) thru current messages

Fact or Fiction - Is Hospital Food As Bad As They Say? First message, sent 6/22/03, 12 days after diagnosis

Anchor's Away -- Marrow Clean as a Whistle! 6/27/03; biopsy shows no sign of leukemia, so I'm in remission

Going UP 6/29/03; includes photo of my now-short hair

Twiddling thumbs & new knitting project 7/2/03; life in the hospital is truly dull after a few weeks

Going Home TODAY!!! :) 7/11/03 whoo-hoo! Finally get to GO HOME after 31 days in the hospital!

Struggle for "Normalcy" 7/15/03 It's great being home but life isn't what it was before

Checked Into Spa for One Week 7/28/03 Starting consolidation chemotherapy round #1

Twas the night before .... 8/20/03 Tomorrow I meet with the doctor about a bone marrow transplant

Hmm, Now What?! (BMT Trip to U of M) 8/22/03 Deciding whether or not to have a transplant is difficult

Round 2 at Club Med 8/25/03 Consolidation chemo round #2 is rougher on my system than #1

Limbo Land and Mac & Cheese 8/29/03 Waiting for testing results for a donor

HP Reporting In With Match Results 8/30/03 No transplant for me

Crummy Week+, But Back Home Today 9/15/03 Bacterial sepsis and host of other nasties

If You Don't Like The First Answer, Wait A Week 10/6/03 Arg! Drs A & B said no more chemo, Dr C said yes

Update 10/22/03

Round #3 Starts Monday 10/23/03 Sending out a hint for more cards & visitors

Tubey No More! 1/13/04

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