Today's results came very late in the day and were mixed. Her hemoglobin (part of the red cells above) went down again, this time from 7.4 to 7.1 (normal ranges are listed in the last post). This keeps her on the border for needing a transfusion however she tires easily and will need the boost with school staring again next week. Thus we'll be spending another Friday at Children's getting transfused. On the up side she was able to make some platelets this past week and those numbers went from 6,000 to 11,000 (there are high error margins with these numbers as they just count a random sample of cells, like those above, from a sample of her blood). Nonetheless we're always happy to see any evidence that her body hasn't just stopped producing blood cells all together. Additionally, her ANC (absolute neutrophil count, the infection fighting part of her white cells) also went up, this time from 590 to 700. That is always good as she needs that to be out in the germy world. We have one more blood test before our meeting with her doctor on March 2nd. I'm guessing that will be a significant meeting discussing a treatment plan but everything else has taken longer than I think so who knows. As always much thanks for the support!
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