Transfusions

It started with a trickel, just a slow, steady tricle of blood from his nose, at about nine o'clock yesterday morning. With platelets in full nosedive mode, a nosebleed is nothing to . uh, sneeze at. Since they were down to 13k on Wednesday, after three hours of drip-drip-dripping, we decided to call the clinic for guidance, even though Jordan had an appointment already scheduled for two pm. They said to come on down, so we called Hank, our chauffeur for the day, and made haste for the clinic downtown. Labs showed the platelets had fallen to 6k, the lowest to date! Hemoglobin was at 9.0 (low, although it has been lower), so they decided to fix him up with a couple of units each of platelets and packed red blood cells. Jordan and Brianna were comfortably ensconced in a private room, compliments of St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, until nearly 11 pm, when the transfusion was finished and Dan transportted them home. That pesky proboscisbleed didn't stop until about nine pm! Hmmm, even though they made it home before the midnight hour, the transfusions appear to have had a transformative effect upon Jordan.

Before

After

March 6:

WBC 0.2

RBC 3.05

HGB 9.0

PLT 6.0

Neuts 0.00