more good news re: platelets up

[orphanedhawk]

What a wild ride! Two weeks ago, my original doctor told me to stop tx due to a low wbc: 1.4, low platelets: 33 and ANC of 500.
I didn't stop and saw another doc. I just got last Friday's results and my platelets are 46, wbc is 2.1 and my ANC is 900 AND that is before I started Neupogen!  
   I am so happy.  It reinforces my decision to change doctors. It felt right and I think we have to follow our intuition. Its hard when you know something needs changing but you feel too sick to do anything.
     Thanks to everyone on this forum for your support.

[aquarius64]

glad to hear of your good news. i too am considering changing docs. this came after i went to the lab to get bloodwork and realized my GI didn't even include a LFT or PCR, only cbc and tsh.  and this was a 6 month standing order. hello...  hope things stay on the right track for you!

[GoofyDad]

My platelets tanked too. Then just when I thought they were going to crash through the low threshold, they would trend up for a few weeks. Cycling up and down. You're gonna make it to the end.

[niceguy2007]

thats great hawk! hope they climb even higher as ur liver fibrosis reduces like kalios.

[friole]

Absolute Neutrophils --

On my bloodwork they are listed as #NE

Neutrophils are one on the kinds of white blood cells -- they are the main infection fighter which is why we don't want them to drop too low.

%NE is the percent of WBC that are Neutrophils.

#NE or ANC is the actual count of neutrophils.

Here is an ANC calculator if you can't find them on your CBC. Don't worry about segments and bands (baby neutrophils) if they aren't listed.

http://www.curehodgkins.com/hodgkins_resources/anc_calculator.html

[orphanedhawk]

You actually inspire me, being the same genotype, and clearing. Thanks so much for your help. ( hope my hubby's odd humor didn't put you off.)

[orphanedhawk]

I am so silly. When OH was still hanging around yelling at us for dinner, I realised her call sounds like "hawwwk, hawwwwk". SO thats what I yell at them! When she first left, I thought I saw her, and ran to get a frozen quail. There I was like a nutcase shaking a dead frozen bird up to the sky yelling,"hawwk, hawwk".
  The hawk flew off when we were weaning her and another hawk, maybe her mother?, chased her away. They are very territorial so it is unlikely she will show up right here. Maybe down the road?
   We are in the migratory flyway, lots of birds, coming and going, flying through a Maxfield Parrish landscape.