Engrafting

Carver's cells are coming in rapidly and starting to do their job! His counts are at 1400 and they have to be consistently above 500 before he's considered engrafted. So far they have doubled in number each day since Christmas. Roughly, those numbers were 0, 130, 420, 720, 1400. Above 1000 is where they like to see them. We see signs that they're working because his bottom showed an inflammatory response. In other words, it looks terribly sore with open skin areas and a little bleeding. But, he's followed by wound care and they let us know what to do every time he gets a flare up. Changing his diaper is more of a treatment process...you have to be prepared and take your time. Also, his skin got splotchy red and puffy again so the doctors are holding his tacro for the time being. His tacro level was 26 and supposed to be between 7 and 10. Those are the only two concerns so far. We scheduled his pain med again until his bottom clears up. But, praise the Lord for White Blood Cells that know what they're doing!

Jenni