Day 29 update

Well Kaitlyn went to clinic yesterday for her day 29 update (actually it was day 30 but due to the holiday they delayed it 1 day)

Before we left the doctors were throwing around the idea that we could not leave the hospital until her ANC (Absolute Neutraphil Count http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=20030 ) exceeded 500.. However the counts we were seeing ranged from 0 on most days to 14ish on better days.. Because it didn't look like she would hit the 500 mark very soon, the Dr(s) decided to release her when they noticed an upward trend in the counts. The Sat that we were set to go home, a nurse practitioner (more than a nurse but not quite a Dr) stopped by... after Heather mentioned that it looked like we were going home, the Practitioner (based on the old 500 release mark) said wrongly "It doesn't look like you are going home any time soon. 500 is a long way, and unless there is some sort of small "miracle" it is going to be a while..

The 500 mark was soon sorted out and the Dr(s) stood by their statement of letting her go based on an upwards swing, but what we took from that is that Kaitlyn was a decent way from hitting the 500 mark

All that to say,.... Her day 29 results are sent to Jon Hopkins Cancer institute for a test that is basically the only one of it's kind in the US..

BUT

We did recieve her ANC from the blood labs they performed yesterday, and her ANC is 504!!@!@@ we were REALLY EXCITED