#21

Cancer Tip #21. This one is hard. Don’t chase blood numbers’ it’ll drive you nuts. They are important and all, but obsessing about them and putting them on spreadsheet and making graphs tracking them (I know from whence I speak) will just confound you. It is like when you’re on a diet and you hop on every scale you can find to see which one weighs you the lightest (and therefore most accurate). Sure you need to know, but don’t obsess, they’ll generally take care of themselves. For you rookies, it can all be very scary, but fear not after a couple of transfusions …