Things are looking up!

I received the results from my recent blood work this morning, and they are encouraging. My viral load stands at 143, down from 575 two months ago. Our goal is for my viral load to be 'undetectable' which means less than 50 copies of the virus in a milliliter of blood. Perhaps when I return in two months for my next test, I'll have achieved that.

My T-cells have risen to 235 from 192 last time, and the percentage of T-cells in my blood is now 20.4.

So my numbers continue to improve after a little blip back in March, when my viral load rose to about 4,500 after being reduced below 200. I was close to undetectable then, too. :-/

I also spoke to my doctor about my tiredness, and he agreed that I can begin sleeping better and getting more exercise. We talked about my knee for a bit; he speculated that I might have torn a ligament during my roller-skating tumble, and that it may have scarred during healing, which makes the ligament tighter. The good news is that regular exercise can help to stretch it back out again. He recommended exercise that didn't put a lot of extra weight on the knee.

My next appointment for blood work is in September, two months from now.

Breaking up is hard to do

My company shares space with my old company, which subleases from the Hispanic Radio Network, which subleases from Knight-Ridder, a tenant of the National Press Building. (Like little Russian nesting dolls, we are!)

Initially, we were told that we would have to vacate by the end of August, because KR wanted the space back. Then that got changed to the end of July. I just found out that tomorrow is the last day in our office, that we have to be out by Sunday.

I have no idea how this is going to affect our work. I suppose I'll either be working at home or working at the client site until we can find new space.

The boss wants to have a staff lunch tomorrow, but I've got plans to hook up with todc to pick up keys and go shopping tomorrow, then I want to head back home to ArtScape, so he'll probably have to postpone it.

Last night, after the developer's meeting we hosted, I ran into someone who worked for the Community Law Center in Baltimore. I caught her up on my job and housing history over the past few months. She told me that I had a remarkably calm aura, given all the stuff I was dealing with. :-)

I'll have to continue to maintain that aura as we go forward.