After high dose chemo from 2nd to 7th March, my Leukos went down to 100 on 12th of March and stayed there till 16th of March.

I received my bone marrow stem cells on 9th of March.

The MDs kept telling me that there was no way that the stem cells could start rebuilding the bone marrow before the 19th of March at the very earliest.

My body obviously had another opinion concerning that.

On 16th of March in the afternoon, my hips started hurting big time - I know this as a sign of rebirth of the bone marrow. My MDs explained me that after the high dose chemo, all blood building cells of the bone marrow die and are no longer there - all that's left inside the bone is the blood itself (there is lots of blood within the bone - break your upper leg and you lose about 2 liters) and fat, and of course all "bone structural cells".

So when the replication process of the stem cells takes of, new cells are built, and as a result, the pressure within the bone increases - that's what causes the pulsing pain within the bone.

One day later, on the 17th of march, my Leukos were at 300.
Next day, 18th of March, they were at 3100.
Next day, 19th of March, when this photo was taken, they were at 12500.
Next day, 20th of March, they were at 19.000 and I went home!