Thanks for all the hugs, everyone! Back at you! Tonight is the first night of my new medicine for ET. I am starting on Hydroxyurea 500 MG, 3 days a week. My doc then wants me to start with blood draw once a week for the first month. then every 3 months if all is well. I am having a hard time realizing this is ME we are talking about. I am the one with the unseen condition that starts with the Big C. Maybe I'm still numb, maybe it's no big deal, who knows? I don't like that there is nothing I can do to make it better besides take a pill.