Diagnosis & Prognosis

The ‘osis’ is Aplastic Anemia. We were holding out that it could be something else, but all of the testing has eliminated assumptions of whether or not it’s non-classic ITP or another type of blood disorder. We remain prayerful that her body has the...

Be Careful What You Ask For

I was having a bit of banter with my sister yesterday and telling her that I needed a Road Trip. Well I imagined quite a different journey, but I hopped on the highway this morning, hit a few tolls and pulled up to the Pediatric E/R. Mireya had a high fever and was...

When Your Up Your Up

and when your down your down. Mireya’s hemoglobin and her white blood cell count are up this week, but those pesky platelets still continue to be an issue. Within the last 7 days they have gone from less than 5k to 79k and now they are 12k. I could tell based on...

Prayer Changes Things

We had a routine follow-up at Hemoc today. Well it was pretty routine until a fire alarm went off on one of the floors which necessitated the entire Nelson Clinic to be evacuated for a short period of time. My initial dilemma was how I was going to get that heavy...