During this phase, Alyson’s ANC has been dramatically low. The goal of maintanence/interim maintanence is to keep the ANC below a certain level. For her protocol, it’s 750 for IM. On the 25th, her counts were still below 500 (around 250, actually) and she wasn’t able to get methotrexate. Again. She hasn’t had “chemo drugs” [...]
Alyson went up to 400 by Monday. It was still too low to do the full chemo, so she just received the Vincristine. One thing showed up on the CBC that we haven’t seen before: immature RBCs (reticulocytes). No biggie that they showed up in the bloodstream. It basically means that her marrow is on [...]
The kids and I drove up to Clinic yesterday morning. Alyson’s ANC has gone from ~1200 to 380 in 10 days. She isn’t high enough to keep going with the minimal chemo dose that is Interim Maintainence. We’ll be back up on Monday to check again. If she’s a go (ANC > 500), then she [...]
