In June 2024, at the age of 36, I developed a severe cough that was diagnosed as pneumonia. Despite treatment with oral antibiotics the cough only worsened and it was clear that something much more serious was occurring. I left work early to go to urgent care and they sent me to the ER and then shortly after I was hospitalized. During the hospitalization, I went through every test they could think of. One doctor finally found what it was and I was diagnosed with a rare lung infection, Blastomycosis and transferred to an Infectious Disease unit. During my stay there, doctors noticed that my white blood cell count was abnormally low, which is atypical in cases of Blastomycosis. I started doing more blood tests and they couldn’t find anything, so they did a bone marrow biopsy. It took about a week for them to go over the results and I got a call to schedule an appointment to go to an office visit to go over the results. I honestly was not prepared nor expecting what came next. Turns out my low white blood cell count was due to Hairy Cell Leukemia. With my blastomycosis, I couldn’t start treatment right away because I was prone to infection. It took about a month to have the effects of blasto get better with the medication. After that I started my chemo treatments.
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