Check-up Tues Jan 23, 2007

Well we went in for Stefan's check-up. Had the bone biopsy done (they got 2- 1/2 cm. of bone biopsy to work with) and the blood work afterwards. She saw me and figured I had some news to mention about Stefan, because he never says that he is tired or anything like that. But she said the test results will show up if anything is happening inside him. I mentioned to Dr. Olga that Stefan and some family members were planning to go on a ski trip, well she was not too happy about it. But when the bloodwork results came in she was ok with the trip then. His blood work results were like this: his white blood count (WBC) was 7.3, his hemoglobin was at 13.4, and his platelets still low but moving to the 100 hundred mark were at 90. Doctors did tell us that it would take at LEAST a year to re-cover to get past 100 in platelets.

While we were there I gave her a Birthday card for Wed. She was surprised , but I did remember her mentioning that on his transplant day, Jan 24, 2006 that, that was her birthday, sooooooo, of course I wrote that down mentally. She was very happy to be remembered in that way by a patient.
Dr. Olga will call on Wed with the biopsy results.

Next appointment will probably on the same day that the appointment with Dr. Ison (Infect Dis.) on April 25, 2007.