Today was a long, emotional day for me. The short version is that her blood draw last night showed some abnormalities and there was some question as to whether the cancer cells were back. After several more tests and several hours of waiting (and I cannot even begin to describe how hard those hours were), the dr concluded that she is probably ok and her bone marrow is just doing some funny things as a result of the chemo combined with a probable virus.<\/p>\n
It came as a huge relief, but I still have some concerns because her ANC is still<\/em> only 100 after 5 days of round the clock antibiotics. We will be doing blood draws twice a week until her ANC is above 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a long, emotional day for me. The short version is that her blood draw last night showed some abnormalities and there was some question as to whether the cancer cells were back. After several more tests and several hours of waiting (and I cannot even begin to describe how hard those hours were), … Continue reading “Scare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}