What is up with that?

I had my platelets routinely checked last Friday. While on 5 mg of prednisone every other day they dropped from 97,000 to 60,000. I am now suppose to be prednisone free (yeah..no more hot flashes!!), and was suppose to have platelets checked in 2 weeks, but since they are getting close to the "worrisome" level (50,000) I am suppose to have them checked again this Thursday. This is getting frustrating because I dont know whats going on and what is causing this!! I guess that is what Dr's are for, right?

Denise

Our little buddy is doing great!!!

Dr Hennessy (the hematologist from Childrens) called me last Friday and recommended we have Lucas's platelets checked yet one more time. This would be like heel stick number 439?? Poor little guy!! Yesterday I took him to the clinic (they know us by name there), and today the clinic called with the results. Lucas's platelets were 269,000!!!! WOW!! I think we can officially say he is a healthy boy now!! He constantly wants to eat and is gaining weight like crazy. Cant wait to see how much he weighs at his 2 month check up later this month.



Denise had her platelets checked last Friday and they dropped from 158,000 to 97,000. The oncologist continues to ween her off the prednisone while re-checking platelets. We will see what happens to them when she is off prednisone altogether. The oncologist is pretty sure Denise has ITP, and it just happened to be uncovered during pregnancy.



Hope you all have a great week! We will keep you posted of any updates!



The Mills Family