Mary's WBC count

Unfortunately, Mary's white blood cell count was low again this morning.  Basically, a 4.0 K/UL is low but they aren't scared. Mary today is @ 1.4.  Here are her numbers for the curious and medically-motivated.

9/28 - the first reading after the first trip to the hospital - 3.7
9/30 - 3.5
10/5 - 2.0
10/6 - Day of surgery - 2.7
10/6 - After surgery - 1.5
10/7 - 2.2
10/8 - 1.2
10/9 - 2.1
10/10 - 1.4

They are concerned about the trend, not the daily fluctuations, but the current trend shows us nothing.  Unfortunately, it is Saturday, so our surgeon and surgeon are both unavailable for questions. However, as the son of a physician, I am totally cool with that - I'm living quite family first these days!

One encouraging thing we noticed is that her neutrophil % is higher. The neutrophils are the work horses of the WBC and mary's low levels are what most frightened people. She had around 7% of her WBC were N; they were as low as 1-2% around the day of the surgery - today and yesterday they were at 11% and 10% respectively.  So, we'll hold onto that positive news for now.

Mary's recovery has been difficult. She did have her chest and sternum opened up! However, she has been doing excellent. It would be a great boost to the recovery process if we just got some signs that this was a needed surgery and not just something done to rule out a possibility.

love to all
Cam, Mary and Sam