Tuesday, January 26, 2010

White Count on the upswing!

Carla's white blood count the past three days has been 0.08, 0.16 and 0.50! I think her induction II chemo has bottomed out and she is on the upswing. Her platelet count was low enough one day last week she had to have a platelet infusion. They give those when her platelet count falls below 20. Hers had dropped to 28 yesterday but was up to 39 today.
Last Friday, Carla had a CT scan supposedly to determine if the bottom screw in T9 vertebrae had pulled loose. The neurologist happened to give me a copy of his orders and they were for a thoracic scan. We met with Dr. Barlogie on Monday and I asked to see the radiologist's report. He quickly printed me a copy. It was a cervical scan and did not cover the thoracic region where the rod is holding her back together.
The short of it we had to get another CT scan today. Carla made certain the tech knew what region he was to scan. He replied that they had already been there and he gotten the T-shirt! I think Dr. Barlogie made several folks aware of this mistake. Now we have to watch to make certain we only get billed for the one scan.
We are hoping that they might be able to do some corrective action on Carla's back later this week. We have our next appointment with Dr. Barlogie next Monday. Hopefully Carla's blood will have rebounded sufficiently for us to go home for a short break (a week or less) before they prepare Carla for her first stem cell transplant.

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