[Al's Wife]

Thanks for your suggestions Neil and Debbie. Once we see what the platelets are tomorrow, I am definitely going to let the local oncologist know what transpired. The nurse said she had talked to the doctor but I don't know that for sure. I have had issues with her in the past.
But we are either going to get the local hospital to fax the results to Moffitt or Quest Labs if we are satisfied with their lab tomorrow for future draws.
Another thing that is strange is that my husband actually had an early appointment with VA this morning for a yearly visit, since they furnish a lot of his meds, and he had to have labs done there. They called tonight and said his platelets were 8,000 and he needed to come in for a transfusion. We told them we had just got home from the emergency room at our local hospital and the platelets were 13,000 so they decided not to transfuse.
So today Al has had a platelet count of 8,000 at 11:00 a.m. at VA; 3,000 at 1:00 p.m. at local oncologist; and 13,000 at local hospital at 4:00 p.m.
So I guess you can see why we are going to get another blood draw in the morning from Quest.
Sometimes all this becomes really overwhelming and today was certainly one of those days.