Since June 7th our life has turned into a roller coaster of emotions and unknowns. Last Thursday Addison went in and her CBC showed less than OK counts which had Charles and I both in a panic. After a weekend full of worrying, tears and praying we met with Addison's hematologist Monday morning and to our great surprise Addison's counts were back up to where they had been the past 5 weeks. This means no transfusions or treatment for now!
WBC 3.85
Neutraphil 1.16
HGB 10.9
Platelets 47
The Dr informed us that when someone has mild aplastic anemia their counts can stabilize and then have these random "blips" down but recover back up quickly. They could be due to fighting off a small cold/infection or her bone marrow just needing to rest for a bit since it is working in overdrive. She was initially worried Friday because there should not be a significant drop in the HGB just WBC and platelets. We concluded the drop in the HGB was mainly due to her being extremely hydrated. Your hemaglobin is a concentration of your red blood so if you are super hydrated the concentration could be diluted. We remembered that the day before Addison had the CBC last week she drank a record amount of fluids so that could account for the low HGB. Well on Sunday Addison barely drank anything and then again Monday morning so her HGB was back up. Crazy how little things like that can affect it in such a huge way! The Dr did say that if Addison continues to improve it will be a slow upward trend that will take probably close to a year or longer before back to normal levels. We are happy to wait and avoid treatment! Just means our life will continue to be a roller coaster for quite some time!
Going to work on getting some pics posted of our little lovebug! Thank you for the continued prayers!
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