Here are my latest numbers. I find myself holding my breath every month still. Last month, my m-band showed up with a value of detectable but not quantifiable, which of course I was not happy about. This month it was the same. (M-band indicates an excess of abnormal antibodies (M-proteins) in the blood, and can be caused by myeloma or by a few other reasons.)
My doc says there are no signs of myeloma; I’m not sure if I believe him with that showing up on my m-band. Although, I don’t know what to believe in general within myself. It could be cancer, it also could be my post car-t immune system. Only time will tell. My light chains are normal, so that’s good. My lambdas went into normal range this month. They have been low since my car-t, which I guess is a year old now.
I guess I haven’t really written about growing mushrooms here on my blog. I’ve been posting a bit about it on instagram. Anyhow, I started growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms in May, I believe. It was a bit of a learning curve to it, and I’m still learning, but I have a lot of it down by now. Growing mushrooms here at home has left me, at times, with quite a surplus of mushrooms. So I’ve been eating lots of them everyday.
Something that I learned in the last few months is that mushroom organism (mycelium) is still alive and active for up to 48 hours after the mushrooms have been picked. Being picked fresh and then consumed has exposed my cells to something different.
The reason for my seemingly random tangent is when I was looking at my CBC last month and particularly this month (it’s easier to see the trend), I was surprised to see the spike up in my red blood cells, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. It’s quite noticeable on a data point graph (posted below).
When there is a change, I like to look and see what has happened since. Not much has changed in my life other than my consumption of new and a lot of mushrooms. It could be for other reasons, but it makes me wonder if mushrooms are responsible. The four mushrooms that I’ve been growing are pink and yellow oysters (gourmet), lion’s mane (gourmet and medicinal), and reishi (medicinal). But perhaps that is for another post.
In any case, I’m left with another month of mental torment, wondering if the myeloma is percolating or if the cancer gods are just messing with me. Just keep walking is what I tell myself. I’m off to get another round of IVIG to help my poor immune system.
Carrots Over Cancer 
Think positive.
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