Saturday, December 4, 2010

Abigail's counts are way up!

Hi everyone! Abbi is doing great! we are in san francisco now she had a bone marrow biopsy yesterday to see where her engraftment is and she is recieving ivig right now. her blood counts are good, i drew blood on monday and her platelets had stayed the same at 135,000 her hemoglobin was up a little at 9.8 her anc and wbc had gone down but that is fluctuation which is normal, so during her biopsy yesterday they also drew a cbc and her platelets have gone up to 141,000 and her hemoglobin up to 10.4. it is all gonna go up and down, but her platelets are what they watch. they need to keep going up. so they have requested more cells from the donor to bump abbi to 100% no word yet they will know by the time they get the results of biopsy back. if for some reason the donor is not available then they will give her immune therapy which is the opposite of prograf, it stimulates her immune system to wake up and fight and hopefully cause gvhd, just a little. they checked her t cell and b cell funtion today, drew 7 tubes of blood, so that might make her hemoglobin drop a point or 2. probably too early still for her immune system to be normal again. and she has too much iron in her blood from all of the transfusions over the yrs. so once her hemoglobin is at 11 they will start getting rid of her blood to throw away the iron. abbi is asking to use the computer so have a great day and god bless! Candice (Mom) Later after we got home it was reported that Abigail's bone marrow testing revealed she is 100 percent donor now!  PRAISE GOD's DIVINE HEALING GRACE!!