I DON'T HAVE CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After TWO HELLISH WEEKS of having to wait for test results, my hematologist informed me that my bone marrow came back negative for lymphoma and leukemia!!!! I am relieved beyond words. I owe a HUGE thank you to everyone who has given me support and let me vent/scream/cry to them during these past few weeks.

The only abnormality that my bone marrow showed was "absence of iron". They said they could not find ANY trace of iron in my bone marrow. And this is after 8 months of taking iron supplements and shots. So now I'm getting intravenous iron transfusions once a week to see if my body can hold onto the iron. So we know it's not leukemia or lymphoma, but we still don't know what's causing all of the problems I'm still having. I'm just EXTREMELY glad it's not cancer. My sister and I are the only grandaughters on my Mom's side of the family who haven't died of cancer. Since I already had to deal with colon cancer when I was 18, I was starting to feel like maybe cancer was stalking me like in the movie Final Destination. I kept thinking that since it didn't get to take me when I was 18, that it was going to keep trying until it succeeded. I know that may sound crazy, but you start to think crazy things when you average 2-3 hours of sleep every 3 days.

I got to spend a fun weekend up in Blacksburg with Adam this weekend. When he showed up, he'd gotten almost all his hair cut off! He said he had it cut really (REALLY) short so that if I ended up having to deal with cancer (again) and had to go through chemo, he'd get the rest shaved off to match me if I had to lose my hair. That's love, right there. He also made me dinner and our non-alcoholic version of bubbly to celebrate the good news. Of course, that was AFTER we watched our Hokies kick some football hiney against Cincinnati.

My next appointment is with my main doc this Thursday, where we're going to start the ball rolling on me getting transferred to probably Duke since the docs around here have exhausted all of their options. I'm just insanely happy it's not cancer.

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So the good news is I don't have cancer. The bad news is I'm still playing "stump the doctors" cuz they still don't know what IS causing all of this.

I think I'ma go watch a movie since I can't sleep. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! And I promise to get (and stay) caught up on all y'alls blogs this week, cuz I've missed hearing what's going on with you guys.