All appears to be well.

As was pointed out to me last night, I've been a little lax about updating this blog. The reason for that is that everything has been going swimmingly. My white blood cell count is still in a reasonable range after last week's little episode. My blood pressure appears to be under control and even my potassium level is behaving itself. I'm not sure if I can deal with my health actually going right for a while, but we'll see! :-)

Work annoyances

I go through this every time Microsoft releases a new OS. I hate Vista. It is making my life really suck these days. To no one's surprise, MS has released this thing before it was ready for prime time. In the last week, I have had to deal with it in three different languages, two of which I obviously do not speak. I hate Vista.

Immune system issues

I had another episode of my white blood cell count dropping like a brick. I think I need to talk to my doctor about this. While I know that I am going to have a compromised immune system, I don't think I am supposed to have an immune system that yo-yos like this. It seems like I should not have to deal with this. Why is my body reacting to my medication by dropping my white blood cell count so drastically?

On the up side, they treated the drop with a medicine called Neupogen and it restored my WBC to an acceptable level in three days. The only real downside to this is that the drug is only available as an injection. Despite three years of Dialysis and a ridiculously high number of doctor visits and hospitalizations that involved either injections or blood draws, I am still afraid of needles. Having to give myself a shot, even for only three days, was about as close to my own personal hell as I ever want to get. I'd hate to think of what my life would be like if I ever developed diabetes...

Work is rolling along just fine

Well, it looks like I am going to be back up to full time at work even earlier than I thought. I've been putting in full days since last thursday and I have not been having any problems. Now all I have to do is manage to keep up with my to do list... :-)