[Greg H]

This, ladies and gentlemen, is more like it.

My labs for this week were pulled on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, because we had a significant amount of snow and ice early in the week -- significant, that it, for those of us living south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Hemoglobin was 8.9. That's a good number; but it should be good, since I was transfused with two units of packed red blood cells five days before the labs were drawn. Still, given that I have in the recent past burned through two units in a week, I'm feeling pretty good about an 8.9.

Even more positive along those lines is a reticulocyte count of 101. That's up from 77.4 last time and nearing the top end of normal. If my theory is right (I'm still confused about reticulocytes), I must be making some red blood cells.

Platelets have bounced back up to 70, which is a move in the right direction.

And my neutrophils are up to 1010, nearly recovered to the 1320 they stood at when I left NIH just after Thanksgiving.

Finally, I have a lymphocyte count of 210, also up from last week, an indication that the other parts of my immune system are recovering -- aside from the CD-4 T-Cells, which I imagine are still in the basement, which is why I took the Campath in the first place.