Timelies all!

Health~ma to you, amyth.

Shit, amyth, no! I'm so sorry. I'll echo all the offers of help. Whatever we can do, just ask. I know you've got some good local support, too, but we are ready to spring into action from afar!

Edited to add: of course, sending you all my love and good thoughts and ~ma of all sorts.

Amyth, send you love and lots of ~ma.

amyth, what kind of leukemia? My mom had chronic lymphocytic leukemia and treatment varied considerably. Her early treatments were a simple pill and had limited side effects. Later treatments were harder on her. Best of luck.

amyth, oh no! What a shock! I hope the treatments will go well! That's really scary.

This mortality thing can go suck it.

amyth! no! please let us help in some way. all the ~ma in the world for you!

amyth, sending strength and coping vibes, and also love and support in whatever form that might help. Coloring books? Trashy novels? A supersized box of the good tissues? Anything, everything, say it and it's yours.

n/m

Hi everyone. Thank you all so much. The power of Buffista love is amazing.

I'm in a room. I've had nineteen vials of blood drawn, a chest X-ray, spoken to three doctors, and tomorrow I am supposed to get an eeg, an echocardiogram, and a bone marrow biopsy, as well as install a central line into my neck. I can't believe that before 11:30 this morning, I didn't even know I had leukemia. I guess you can't say they aren't responsive here.

As far as what kind of leukemia: unknown. They expect to figure that out in the next 48 hours and then come up with a treatment plan and start right away. I think the most shocking thing in a day full of shocking things has been when they told me that I will most likely be here for a month, rather than a week. The idea of letting my entire life go is very hard to wrap my head around. Just...letting it go? How?

I can't process a possible prognosis, or how awful chemo might be, or what's going to happen to my hair, or my immune system. I'm still stuck on all the things I wanted to get done! Do I drop out of grad school? I have to cancel my trips to Florida and NY? (I do. Obviously.) I missed therapy today and forgot to tell my therapist. Thankfully, my boss has been amazing and is taking care of everything at work, which is considerable and also filled with irritating minutiae.

My neighbors (including Calli!) are taking care of my cat. Calli is even taking him to his annual vet appointment on Friday. So awesome. My friends T and G are flying down from NY tomorrow which has me in tears just thinking about it. My brother (!!!) has offered to fly in from Chicago. I'd joke that's how I know I'm dying for real, but I'm not quite there yet. It hasn't even been twelve hours! What. Is. Happening.

Steph, you made me laugh out loud, because my bff and my boss were helping me pack in a rush and were asking me which books to pack and all I could think was that all I wanted to read was GO fic. But I couldn't say that!

Updates from my new reality as I can. Thanks for the love. I expect I will totally flip out very soon.

Oh and they never would've found this at all if it weren't for the kidney stones, and the enlarged lymph nodes in my abdomen that they found when they did the CT scan in the ER. Which is frightening/amazing to think about, because I feel totally normal.

(Except my blood pressure is OFF THE CHARTS, but when I told the nurse I just found out that I have leukemia at lunch today, she said, "Oh, that's probably okay then.")