A Set Back

A set back, or so we thought.  Rassie's labs came back on Tuesday and his white count had gone up from 190,000 to 240,000.  They were supposed to go down.  We were so worried and wanted to know why the medications were not working.  Would we have to speed up treatment?  There were so many questions and the doctor took forever coming by.  

Dr. R finally showed up about 3:30 and set our minds at ease.  Rassie would still get to go home.  Dr. R said that the bone marrow had just let out more of the 'bad cells' and all that meant was we needed to up his dosage of hydroxyurea.  He was to come back once a week for labs to make sure it was doing the job.

They went over everything with us.  Said Rassie would do labs once a week and they they would get us a clinic appointment set up with Dr. O (I think this is the Fellow).   From the clinic appointment we would get the bone marrow biopsy set up and talk about getting Rassie on the Gleevac.

We were all so happy to be bringing Rassie home!!!  We celebrated with dinner out with Mexican food.