Thursday, May 1, 2008

A little more on the low white blood cell count

As I stated in my last post, Gaby was delayed from her 7th week of treatment due to red flags raised at the labs.

her energy levels have seem to wane a little from last weekend until yesterday. Just a little as she still played during her normal times - when Jennifer gets home she wants to play until I get home. Then we go outside in the yard and hang out until dinner.

Her stool has been as soft as I had seen it since this first started. Good news is that today it has seemed to clear up. Her energy level has also been really good today.

You ought to see the trends that the graphs from her blood work show! Her white cell count peaked around April 16 and then slowly declined at steady levels until this past Wednesday when they were really low. So, we had flags from the labs. Hopefully her increased energy levels today mean that we are past that point and we are starting on the way up. I wonder what happened on April 16? Was that the day we started her Cytoxan pills every other day? Could that be affecting her this much? It definitely was not the Dox, she just had her first dose last week. She was declining at least 2 weeks from then.

The lab work sheets show alot of interesting information, especially if you follow the trends.

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