Just spoke with our favorite patient, who sounds pretty good for a person on chemo. She says she feels a little “shaky,” but that’s to be expected – and just this afternoon she started on the more serious chemo drug. So things might get worse soon, and in fact our talk today was cut short because she had to go vomit.
She is in a new room, #8214. The phone number there is 206-598-3906. She now has a view of Mount Rainier, which is an improvement.
She says the docs tell her everything is going according to plan, and the transfusion is still expected to take place on Tuesday. After that, she’ll just be in the hospital (no more chemo) and it will be all about those blood levels. “Hurry up and wait,” is how she put it.
Speaking of blood levels, here are the last two day’s numbers, with the normal range in parentheses:
WBC: 5.87 – 4.84 (4.3 - 10)
HCT: 36 – 34 (36 - 45)
ANC: 4.13 – 3.31 (1.8 - 7)
PLT: 86 – 75 (150 - 400)
An explanation of these numbers is in the previous post.
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