He started another low grade fever yesterday afternoon, and went up to 101.4 at 4am. Blood culture was drawn again. They never stopped IV cefepime 3/day since last fever on Friday.
His hemoglobin is 6.9 at 4am, they just drew additional blood to be used to for transfusion matching.
We learned from other ALL parents that before ANC kicks in, platelets will stabilize and start trending up. Then comes abundant monocytes. Then comes red blood cells and neutrophils. After last platelets transfusion on 7/19, his counts has been 38, 32, 44, and today 55. And his WBC had been 0.3, then 0.6 for two days, and today 1.0. Still waiting for diff type. Hopefully there will be signs of recovery (more monocytes) or if we are lucky, some neutrophils today. I need to go back home to get some uninterrupted night time sleep to maintain my own health.
Update: ANC still 0. 90 lymph, 10 monocytes.
Good luck to Lucas on speedy recovery. Not easy, but light is right at the front. Big hug!
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