Rachel’s lab tests on Tuesday showed that her hemoglobin and platelets were getting pretty low and her ANC was 0. Re-checked labs this morning, doing a blood transfusion at the clinic without waiting for lab results since it was already borderline on Tuesday and she was feeling tired and started to get a headache. Platelets had dropped even more, so we opted to do a platelet transfusion as well. We had to go to the hospital for that since she always has an allergic reaction and they want to have the safer hospital setting in case she gets a really bad reaction (she didn’t.) White count continued to drop and ANC was still 0.

Sometimes a hospital visit has its perks: Rachel got a visit from another service dog while getting platelets.