Thursday, May 7, 2009

It has been a really long day- as you know Terry's blood counts have been very low- especially her platelets which have not been increasing despite repeated transfusions. Yesterady after the bone marrow biopsy (results should take about 10 days) she was feeling sick- throwing up a couple of times and had a bad headache. They assumed it was from all of the stress and the medications she had yesterday but then this morning Jodi called the clinic to tell them and they told her to take her straight to the ER and have a CT scan done or to call 911. Jodi took her to the ER in Mountain View and they found a small lesion on her brain that was bleeding. After a few bags of platelets and medication they transported her to UCSF. After another bag of platelets her count jumped from 5 to 77- which is really good- they have not been that high for a while but her hemoglobin and hematocrit have dropped (most likely from the bleeding). She is resting right now in the hospital and we are not entirely sure what their plan is. We will keep you updated as we know more.

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