Transfusion Time

Sawyer was able to return to school this week. He attended half days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and seemed to handle the added activity pretty well. However, yesterday (Thursday) he had ablood test and the results indicated that he is critically neutrapenic. As you may or may not recall from a previous post on neutrapenia, normal folks have an ANC (absolute neutraphil count) of about 3000 with the safe range starting at 1600. Sawyer's ANC yesterday was 70. As a result, we were asked to bring him to Strong for a couple units of double red blood cells. These transfusions are absolute life savers, so make sure you give blood and if you don't mind, ask about giving double reds. Sawyer is at the hospital now awaiting additional lab reports before proceeding with the transfusion. Updates to follow.