Thursday, November 12, 2009

I get chills all over again....

I had my 2nd appointment today with the hematologist to follow up on my abnormal blood test results. In the last few months my white blood count was very low and my lymphocyte count was high. They found this out through all of my testing to diagnose my gall bladder. They then looked back in my chart and found that for the last 18 months or so, my white blood count had steadily been going down. My PCP referred me to the hematologist and as I had mentioned earlier he had thrown around some very scary words like leukemia. Of course, I was worried and enlisted my prayer warriors to start going before the thrown on my behalf.
This second low blood count result was around the 15th of October (my first being a week earlier). I then waited for several weeks to see the hematologist and was worried that I might really be sick. Still praying for a positive outcome, but still thinking about all of the "what if's".
Two weeks ago was my first appointment with the hematologist. They took 12 viles of blood and tested me for pretty much everything that would be of concern with a low blood count. She said she fully expected for me to have to come back several times and have more labs to try to find the reason why my counts would be this low. She said my chances of leukemia (in her opinion) were low, but there were a lot of options and things it could be, so she just ran a bunch of tests.
Today I got a call from her office saying that I needed to go over to the hospital before my appointment to have more labs drawn. She wanted to confirm the results she got from her lab.
I am not going to lie, I thought the worst and I was nervous.
By the time I made my way to my appointment, she had the lab results from 2 weeks ago and from today.
Doctor: "Well, I can't really explain these results. I just wanted to make sure, so I sent you over to the hospital to confirm the results we got and make sure we didn't make a mistake".
Me: gulp and breath holding....
Doctor: "Well, I can't really explain this but your test results came back completely normal. Your white count is perfect".
Me: "What? Really?"
Doctor: "Ya, it doesn't really make much sense, but good news is good news! Even your vitamin levels are great (I don't take vitamins at all and she was sure my blood tests would show vitamin deficiency) Everything came back great.
Me: "It makes sense to me".
Doctor: "Really?"
Me: "It makes sense to me because I have had about 5,000 people praying for me and my complete healing".
Doctor: smile, wink

I get chills all over again just writing this. What a testimony to my God and my Jehovah Jirah and Jehovah Rophe. My God who provides and heals.

Thank you to everyone who went before my God on my behalf and for all of the prayers, support and encouragement. Please continue to pray for me as I have surgery this Tuesday. These blood results also cleared me for surgery and my clotting factors are good, so I feel much better about this surgery. I am looking forward to not being in doctors offices every few days and finally feeling better!
I follow up with my hematologist every 3 months for a year and she will run repeat CBC's and if I have normal white cell results then I will be released from her as a patient!

Every time I think about this, I get chills all over again....

6 comments:

Tammy said...

Chills...oh yeah!

Angela said...

I am so happy!!! I just talked to shannon about the news!!! Amazing.

Paige said...

This is so amazing! Wholeness! God's word is so true! Thank you for sharing!! I love you!

Daniel said...

Hallelujah! Awesome news!

Minters - The Other Side of the Story said...

That's so awesome! :)

Anonymous said...

Praise GOD...it has been a good report week for us as well. Mom and I will continue our prayer and praise. DAD