We had an interesting visit to the clinic today. We thought it was going to be a basic blood check to see Sarah's levels and maybe include a blood transfusion. The plan was for Jess to take Sarah and Gus and if needed, I could come from work and take over. Unfortunately, Sarah's port wasn't drawing out blood. They tried to use heparin to make sure there wasn't any clots but it wasn't working. That meant that Sarah needed an X-ray to make sure that port was still in the right place. Gus was getting tired so he wasn't behaving. I left work to meet Sarah and Jess at the clinic. The X-ray showed that everything was in the right place. They gave Sarah some more heparin with muscles. This is fairly common for a film to form over the port tube so it becomes a one way valve. The heparin with muscles worked and they were able to pull the blood for the tests. Jess had left to put Gus down for a nap. Sarah's numbers came back and her hematocrit was 21.4, right on the border. She has an appointment on Friday, but they didn't think that she would make it by then, so we went ahead with the blood transfusion today. So I was there with her for another 3-4 hours after the blood tests came back. I am glad I don't expect life to be easy.
The rest of this week has been pretty good. Sarah finished up the Ara-C on Monday, so we are closer to be done with the weekly chemos. We have like 18 weeks left or so. After that we move to a monthly schedule which should mean that we gain some sense of normalcy again.
We are grateful for all the prayers and support.
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