No Lymphoma in PET Scan; Recovering White Cells

I was a little bit latelets for my platelets.

While there, the nurse let me know that my PET scan was "all clear" for lymphoma*  They also let me know that my white blood count had gone from 0.8 to 2.4 which means it is rising and has gone from 1/6th of the normal minimum of 4.5 to at least now being only half of normal.

The PET being all clear means proceding on track for an Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (with me as donor)

The testing schedule is basically the same as sketched earlier. Tomorrow I will schedule a bone marrow test for somewhere in the post-Christmas week.

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*there are still some odd things that show up in my liver, for which I've already had an ultrasound.  The liver, being a glucose processing organ, naturally lights up alongside glucose-loving cancer. In fact, both brain and liver are expected to be "bright" in PET scans, so brightness there is usually not focused on as either good or bad.  Apparently they saw something unusual in both this and past PET scans, but they've decided that whatever it is, it is not on the critical path for ASCT the way finding lymph/gut cancer would have been.

And they did do an ultrasound of my liver and its neighbors on my Emergency Department visit.  It didn't see anything distinctly worrying, so while the liver looks odd, it hasn't triggered any intervention.