Good news is Jessie's molecular bone marrow test has come back for the third time- negative for leukemia cells.
Not so good news is that her counts are dropping at college. She had blood work done yesterday just before she was supposed to start her 3 oral chemo meds.
Doctors say there could be many reasons why this is happening. The three most likely reasons are:
1. A delayed reaction to her last IV chemotherapy
2. A blood clot in the tube which would skew the results
3. A virus.
Docs say they are NOT worried about this being leukemia because they have such great results from bone marrow tests.
Long story short - they want to see her tomorrow for an exam and for more blood work and they will decide where to go from here.
Stay tuned...
9pm- so the doctor said it is most likely a delayed response to her last IV chemo which she had in late July. He said we need to keep supporting her body until it has a chance to recover.
Meanwhile she just has to be super cautious not to catch anything. If she does and gets a fever with low counts then she will be admitted back into Children's hospital. However, if she gets a fever and her counts are not low then she can probably just get IV antibiotics ad not be admitted.
She got two bags of blood tonight. Luckily they had both of them there already at the hospital. The reason she is so hard to match is that she has what is called anti-Jka antibody in addition to being O- . Apparently there are many more blood types than the ones we all learned about in school! Now they tell me! The nurses talked her into coming home tonight instead of driving 2 hours back to school. Hopefully she will get some rest.
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