Day +9

Today was a bit better than yesterday. I didn’t have the persistent headache and I had a little appetite. I did sleep a lot again. One of my theories about the sleepiness is that my body is diverting energy to doing other things like engrafting new bone marrow and creating blood again. My counts did show evidence of new bone marrow working, especially in the absolute neutrophil count which had been at 0 for 5 days and this morning was at .7. Technically, this means I am no longer neutropenic, but the doctor wanted to keep the neutropenic precautions for another day. The doctor also said that there was nothing out of the ordinary and things seemed right on track. This evening, I did get a flush feeling in my head along with a little bit of a headache. It’s like the feeling I usually get when the platelet transfusions first start, so I wonder if it could be from the engrafted bone marrow creating platelets or something.

I got another platelet transfusion today, and it sounds like it was mostly because they had platelets that were going to expire soon and they didn’t want to waste them. So it wasn’t so much that I needed them, it was more like giving them to someone was better than throwing them out. Interesting.

WBC 0.7
Hgb 8.5
Plt 26 (48 after transfusion)
ANC 0.7


Still hoping to come home later this week …