Platelets look weird. A bag ranges from yellow(like the unit I received shown above) to orange and has a glow—think Gatorade or radioactive comic goo. And I’m not the only one who doesn’t trust the sight of them, I often catch other patients looking at the bag, then back at the attending nurse, then back [...]
I haven’t done a personal update in awhile, mostly because constantly updating my own condition would quickly make this blog annoying. But also because there hasn’t been much news.
The last few months haven’t been much but waiting to see if my bone marrow decides to work or not. As of now my counts haven’t moved [...]
Last Tuesday I received three transfusions—-two units of platelets and one unit of red blood cells. It’s still too early to tell if the ATG is working. The first round of treatment was 41 days ago, as mentioned before 120 days is generally when the doctors have an idea of the serum’s effectiveness.
I’m transfusion dependent. Without the blood of others, I’d be in bad shape. Its been that way for nearly eight weeks. Sorry to say I have never given blood, never given platelets. Not once. Something I read today…every 2 seconds someone in the United States needs blood. 5% of the eligible US population donates blood [...]
This week two transfusions total—one unit red blood cells, one unit platelets—both on Monday; rest of the week was clean.
I’m 22 days post ATG treatment, another 100 (or so) days, according to the doctors, and we should start to have an idea of its efficacy.
Three weeks ago I was taking 19 pills a day, [...]
I ended up needing a blood transfusion today, just a single unit of platelets– those little, sticky blood cells that help stop bleeding. The lifespan of platelets range from six to ten days, the shortest second shortest of the the blood cell line (which also includes red and white blood cells, which have the shortest lifespan 1-2 days) so the transfusion—even [...]
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