Today's Lab Results

Today was the first day of Kyin's biweekly lab draws that we do here in Muskegon.  Dr. Kurt had written the order with a request that the labs be ran STAT and the results faxed to her at DeVos. I didn't realize how fast lab results can come in! I brought Kyin to the lab in the building my office is at at 8:40 am. His nurse, Rebecca from DeVos called with the results before 11am!  His labs were GREAT!  His nurse seemed just as excited about it as I was!  Have I mentioned how much I love the hematology crew DeVos!?

Anyway, here are his labs:

WBC:  Last week 23,840 Today 17,300- these are still high, but that's to be expected from the Prednisone. 

Hemoglobin: Last Week 8.9  Today 11.1 - That's almost normal folks!

Platelets: Last Week 20,000 Today 206,000- Now, I expected this to be higher because of the infusion

She also said his creatine was better and his sugars were normal!  Prednisone can make the patient's sugars sky rocket if they're not careful.  Luckily Kyin has wanted to eat healthy lately and has limited his sweets intake on his own.

The game plan as of today is that he will go in on Thursday for his second set of labs for the week, then again on Tuesday next week, and then plasma infusion on Thursday.  He gets to drop his prednisone intake to 20mg once a day, instead of twice a day.  Rebecca had said that if his labs keep looking great then they might just postpone the second dose of plasma.  Fingers crossed that it stays looking this way!  

Max's ADAMTS13 enzyme level test isn't in yet. They're expecting it to be in by Tuesday of next week, possibly sooner.