February 18, 2010

On Monday when the clinic called the nurse told us that there wasn't any need to continue bloodwork except for every three months. Tracy and I weren't comfortable with that and we told her that. She said that we could continue weekly if we wanted, but there really wasn't any need for it. They (the clinic) considered her fully recovered. We don't understand how they can consider her fully recovered when not all of her counts are in the normal range. The only one that was normal as of Monday was her platelets. Her hemoglobin is almost there. But her white blood cells and anc still had a ways to go!

Since we are having her post chemo party on Saturday we wanted to be sure that her anc is high enough. If it isn't we'll know that she'll need to wear a mask. So we went for counts this morning after dropping Alyssa off at school.

When we were walking in the door from picking Alyssa up from school, the phone was ringing. It was the clinic calling with Trystan's counts. Her platelets were already in the normal zone and are continuing to climb! Trystan's hemoglobin is at 10.8 and the lowest end of normal zone is 11.0. She's almost there!! Her white blood cells and anc have dropped again. The lowest end of the normal zone is 1500 and she's dropped to a little above 900. It isn't too bad yet, so we are trying to stay positive. Clinic said to only go for counts once a week. Therefore, we are not to go for counts again until next week Wednesday.

Continuing to prepare for the Post Chemo Party on Saturday.