Hematologist - Six month follow up

Tomorrow is my 6 month follow up appointment with my hematologist.

I find myself asking how it’s been 6 months since I walked into Grand River Hospital and met with her for the first time.

This feels like a tricky time in my journey. I definitely told myself I would follow her recommendations, advice and treatment plan 150% and at this very appointment I would be told that my iron levels are where she wants them to be and that would be it…. Done…. No more tests… No more needles… No more treatment and I would get the green light to get tattooed again.

As I sit here and go through all of my test results and prepare my questions for tomorrow I realize even before I speak with her that’s not going to be what I’m told tomorrow. This is not a 6 month battle…this is the rest of my life. These appointments and tests aren’t going anywhere.

I will forever be thankful for my diagnosis being found so early but in this moment the weight of it all is starting to sit a little different… it’s starting to sink in.

I’m going into tomorrow calm, positive and hopeful but also realistic… my last two phlebotomies have not gone well and my levels are not where my doctor wants them to be.

Regardless, tomorrow I get some answers and for that I’m grateful.

But I do have to ask - Does anyone else put things off to the very last minute that make them anxious even though they can’t hide from it for forever?!? At the end of the day, tomorrow is going to come and I would much rather be prepared then not. And yet, here I am still avoiding preparing for tomorrow…

Thank you for being here 💕