Post transplant question/freak out
And of course it being after hours, it's taking all my internal fortitude to not google.
My husband was dx with ALL preB in July '10. He responded well to chemo but in October the team noticed his liver wasn't so happy. It was determined a BMT would be the best course of action and he received an allogeneic transplant from a perfect match on January 21, 2010. He was released last Thursday and bounced back today for orthostasis. That's not so much my concern. It happens.
Yesterday's platelets were at 242,000 and today they've dropped to 204,000. Yesterday his hemoglobin was 9.1 and today was at 7.9. That's a pretty drastic drop for just one day. Of course my mind jumps to the worst case scenerio--that the transplant was a failure and the leukemia is back. I should also mention he's very sore all over, which was one of his first symptoms before being diagnosed.
Anyways, has anyone heard of a drop that quickly before? Obviously I'm going to ask tomorrow but I'm going to quietly freak out tonight.
Thanks.
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