I took ViviAnne to have her counts checked Friday morning and they were all down. Considerably down. For about 5 days her urine was been VERY dark almost brownish but we had dipped it earlier in the week and it was fine. Well Friday evening I dipped it and it showed blood in her urine. With an ANC of only 400, platelets of 45 and HMG of 7.8 this concerned me. I called the doctor and they said to bring her in to the hospital. After testing her counts had dropped further and the blood in her urine had cleared up to only a trace amount (which is okay) and she was doing okay with all the other blood work (I'll spare you the details of those) and it appeared she has no infection or virus. So they landed on the blood being from her kidney stones. SO they gave her a blood transfusion and did a C.T and let us go home. Which is good because without a hard core answer is was nice to be allowed to go home since she looked good and all preliminary testing looked good.
Her ANC is only 16 now and her platelets are now 35 so she will go back to the clinic on Monday for another transfusion of platelets since she got her blood today. She is resting on the couch and doing okay. We left her port accessed because it took multiple sticks to get it done correctly in the past 24 hours and I couldn't see taking it out to have to put it back in within the next 48 hours. The Doctor agreed. YAY!
As to blood and marrow donations that some of you have inquired about, you can always sign up to do so in her honor but she can not get your blood b/c of the lengthy time it takes to process blood and the fact that we never know when she will need it. This is her 3rd transfusion and could be her last or could not be, no one knows. Also if she has received your blood in the past and she ever did need a bone marrow transplant then you (the blood donor) would no longer be a candidate to donate to her even if you are a match. So you can donate in her honor. I would.
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