Postcards From Lebanon: Part 13 in a Series of Cancer-Related Commentary (Cycle 5)

"Road to nowhere..." (David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison) Every month I've worried about potential potholes, the most critical being whether or not my blood counts would allow me to stay on schedule for my chemotherapy treatments. I've mostly stayed home, rarely gone out, infrequently had people over, fearing that I might catch some dread virus or bacteria and go off schedule. So, when I reported for duty for cycle five, as usual, the first thing I did was to give blood for analysis. I was told my platelets had dropped below what I had thought was the

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