That is until April 2013.
On the night of 30 April 2013 at 8:30 pm I got a phone call
from my GP. She told me there was an anomaly with my white blood cell count and
S&N (who were the group who drew my blood) had just rang her about it. She
was trying to decide whether to send me to hospital that night but I told her I
had a hospital appointment the next day with my Endocrinologist for the
Diabetes. So she was happy to let me wait until then.
So the next morning I wasn’t concerned because I really
didn’t know what it all meant. Then I got a phone call from the hospital. “Mrs
Neilson could you please come in earlier than your appointment today?” So I
went in early, the Endo met me at the counter and said “Toni, what are you up
to this time? I’ve have been getting phone calls from your drs non-stop. We’re
not going to be looking at your diabetes
today, we’re admitting you to hospital.”
Ok so now this is where I started to become worried.
Apparently your White Cells have their own count but they are also broken down.
One breakdown is Neutrophils. My
Neutrophils were extremely and well outside the normal count. I still didn’t
understand what this actually meant other than I was more susceptible to
extremely bad infections because I wouldn’t have been able to fight them off. I
had no immunity.
Then I was put into an isolation room. Anyone who thought
they might even have a slight cold had to be gowned and masked to visit me.
A Haematologist/Oncologist came and saw me and told me I
would have to have a Bone Marrow Biopsy because they believed I had Leukaemia
and needed to find out what type.
To be continued ……..
