Couple of Good News!

Well well well. Believe it or not I am sending this blog post from home from my comfy bedroom and through my zipping fast broadband connection. I got discharged on July 31st at around 6 pm. It wasn't the quite the kind of discharge we had scripted mentally but who is complaining? :) We wanted the counts to soar to a respectable level and then head home. Instead God had other idea in mind. He decided to reverse the order probably because I pressurized Him to be at home for Raksha Bandhan and this was the only way He could let me have the cake and eat it too at such a short notice. It goes without saying that I am elated by this new development and so are all in my family. So how did this all happen? Well He always finds a messenger to start working on your wish. This time it was Sandipbhai. Sandipbhai told us why we couldn't request doctors to discharge me given that counts were continuing to not go beyond 700. We could: 1) make sure that the surroundings at home are safe enough for my recuperation and 2) make visit to hospital whenever doctor wants us to for procedures that cannot be done at home? By doing this not only would I feel a lot better by being at home but we would also cut down drastically on daily cost of the private ward. We bit the bullet and asked this question to our doctor. His response was positive. We could work out an amicable solution so that I can have best of both worlds and I got discharged on the very same day when we proposed this. Isn't it wonderful?!

Good news number 2. After having spent little more than 12 hours at home my WBC count rose by 100! Skeptics might say just it is just 100 but I am so happy with my body's response. Over 10 days of stagnation at 700 has been broken and I feel it will rise steadily now. What made this happen? Change of antibiotics? Change of WBC inducing injection? My return to home? Your prayers? The self talk which I had with my body the other day? I don't know but I would like to believe a concoction of all of the above. I have got to continue having these self talks with my body and making sure that I make the most of my home stay. I am pinning my hopes on counts being at a respectable level on Raksha Bandhan. Wish me luck :).