- Bloodwork, appointment with
Dr. TNP A andtreatmentNeupogen injection at Siteman South County
> 1.5 is normal for most people
> 1.0 is normal for me and high enough for me to get treatment
< 1.0 is safe but too low for me to get treatment
< 0.5 is not considered safe and activities are restricted to avoid an infection
The only time that mine has been less than 0.5 was when I had chicken pox and they put me in the hospital. Today my ANC was 0.5. That's not great news, but as I was looking around on-line to try and define a normal ANC, I found the below article... and I quote "because neutrophils are short-lived, the body produces about 100 billion of these cells everyday." 100 billion. Everyday. So I think I'm going to cut my bone marrow a little slack and take this extra week off chemo to recover... and to make 700 billion more neutrophils. No big deal.
https://www.cancercare.org/publications/216-neutropenia_and_infections_what_you_need_to_know
1 billion a day! that is a crazy number!
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