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Tuesday (last week) - Laid off
Wednessday - Ambulance vsiti to ER
Trnsferred me to regular hospital
4 nightsw there
back one day
next day ambulabnce trip to ER (Tues?)
Day's stay
Hopefu;y meet withs surgeon on Monday
Otherwise life is srcewed up.
Uben
(7,719 posts)Dunno what prompted the ER visits, but I sure hope you can get stabilized for the holidays. Hospital is not a place I like to spend holidays in, although I have spent some there.
Hemocrits and hemoglobin
'cause I lost so much blood
Uben
(7,719 posts).....they were taking blood almost every day. Have you had any Neupogen injections? It's so damned expensive, about $200 a drop, but it helps build WBC almost overnight. I was told it would help platelet count too, and it did. You know as well as I that when you are at the nadir of some chemo treatments, you are about as close to death that anyone wants to get. I do believe this drug saved her life....that day. Of course, there was a tussle over whether the insurance would pay for it, so I told them I would pay them for it personally if the insurance refused. I never saw it on a bill, so I assume they did pay for it.
I have had Neuopogen, but they'reonly for bulding write blood cells, not red. What I need to do is eats of protein and maybe have an infusin ortwp.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)I am so very sorry.
Uben seems to have some good practical advice.
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)and a red blood transfusion if needed. MDS can play havoc with the RBC ... many hugs.