Back Again

Its been almost 4 years since I wrote anything on my blog.
But I had a lot of stress with my divorce. It was finally sorted out this year.
My blood tests have gone up and down over the course of the last 4 years with a few more negatives then I would get a couple of positives. Any way my last two blood test results have been negative. Well one was negative and the other was two few samples to give a reliable reading, so essentially negative. As I say to people this is one of those test you actually want to fail.
Off to the clinic soon so hopefully I will report some good news. Last visit the doctor said I needed 18 months with negative results, then another 6 months on the medication before coming off of it. But he did say the bad thing then is you will need a checkup every 2 months. So that if need be I can go back on to the medication without too many problems.

New Results

What can I say. Its ..... Negative yeah :)
Just need at least another six months of those.

Update at last

Its been almost a year since my last post.
 A lot has happened since then. Me and my wife have separated. She wanted the divorce, not me.
And I think as a result of the stress caused by this my blood tests have been going up and down. So I get a negative one month then next month 0.09 then 0.034. My last one was negative and I am just currently waiting for the results of the next one. I should get this sometime next week.
 I did ask the specialist if stress could be a factor and he seem to think not. But I reckon it is,  as we all know the more stressed you are the more you are likely to become ill.
Also in the last three months I have had at least 4 colds (or is it the same cold and it just hasn't really left) and more cold sores than I have had in the previous two years.
But life goes on, I am looking at writing a few apps for the Android platform which will be quite cool. My first will be a game. My kids like the prototype version :).
 That's about it for now will try and be a bit more regular with updates etc from now one.
Bye for now.

Blood Test again

I feel like a pin cushion. Getting a bit sick and tired of the frequent blood tests.
At least this one didn't hurt as much as the previous one. Still hurt, but not as much. Its strange they never used to hurt and its the same person doing it.
Just have to wait 15 working days for the results, and fingers crossed the results are less than 0.09.

Better late than never

Went to the clinic with a new set of results on Tuesday 12th March.
They where a little higher, previous ones where 0.03 this one was 0.09 so I have to go back in a months time to see if its a glitch or I need to have my medication changed to something else. They may also do a bone marrow sample, oh deep joy at the thought of that.  The cause of the glitch maybe that I had a very bad cold, took about 4 to 5 days to clear up. The biggest problem is not really being able to take extra medicine, especially paracetamol based. As both paracetamol and Glivec (the Leukemia medication) are both processed by the liver. There has been several cases where someone has died while on Glivec and took paracetamol. 
Well I go  on the 25th to have a new blood test and back to the clinic 4 weeks later, I will get the results about the 17th April then the following week its of to the clinic again. So fingers crossed.

Clinic Visit

Looks like I've stabilised still positive for the Philadelphia chromosome. Which means no increase in the number of Philadelphia chromosomes since last time or decrease either. Have another test in about 3 months time. I guess at that one they will decide if I need a bone marrow sample taken.
 Did a small bit of Chrimbo shopping after seeing the Doctor. There is now a Primark in Alicante and its only 5 minutes away from the clinic.

Yeah blood test

Finally got my blood test done and also booked my visit to the clinic for December