We are hopeful that Kristi will be able to go home today. We are waiting for rounds. She's still a little nauseous, and she has a sore leg (we walked a lot yesterday). Kristi's white blood cell count is now within normal range, 11.8*103/uL. Notice that when she arrived, her WBC was nearly five times higher than normal. The recovery of her platelet number is all her, she hasn't received platelets in several days. The recovery of WBC was accelerated by the Neupogen injections (at several thousand dollars a pop). Her red blood cell count went up today thanks to two units of A- that she got last night (they wanted to be sure she was strong when she went home).
So rounds went well. They are going to do an ultrasound on her leg just to be sure. Although the clot is very superficial, they are checking it out anyway. After that, we are going to start the checkout procedure!
Kp just had her ultrasound. She has a small clot in a superficial vein. This shouldn't be a problem. It's really just a bruise. She'll get a follow up to be sure. She's working through the exit paperwork now.
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