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A lot of patients feel like they are on a roller coaster from one blood test to the next, watching their counts go up and down. Sometimes counts are up because a previous transfusion is holding and sometimes they are down because the transfusion has been used up. Counts can also be affected when he's dehydrated, so any one blood test doesn't give the big picture. Sometimes you just can't tell why counts ended up at a certain level, so you just have to take comfort when they are up. Appreciate the good days when he feels less fatigued, no matter what the counts are.
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