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Tab

(11,093 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 04:12 AM Nov 2014

This week in

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.

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This week in (Original Post) Tab Nov 2014 OP
Blood counts? Uben Nov 2014 #1
H&H not great Tab Nov 2014 #2
If your experience is anything like my wife's...... Uben Nov 2014 #3
Thanks Tab Nov 2014 #5
You have been through too much. NCarolinawoman Nov 2014 #4
Wishing you luck on Monday ... slipslidingaway Nov 2014 #6

Uben

(7,719 posts)
1. Blood counts?
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 07:36 AM
Nov 2014

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.

Uben

(7,719 posts)
3. If your experience is anything like my wife's......
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 05:30 PM
Nov 2014

.....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.

Tab

(11,093 posts)
5. Thanks
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 10:48 AM
Nov 2014

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.

slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
6. Wishing you luck on Monday ...
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 01:05 AM
Nov 2014

and a red blood transfusion if needed. MDS can play havoc with the RBC ... many hugs.




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