Day 3 at the Hospital

Today is Olivia's 3rd day at the hospital. Yesterday she was so much better, more color (thanks to the transfusion!), and had a lot more appetite. She had no fever overnight too. Her hemoglobin count is now 9 and white blood count is 1. The problem still is her ANC. It is only 100 (normal is 1500) and is severely neutropenic. This is most likely caused by an infection. It takes a couple days for blood culture results to come back to find out if it is bacterial infection. She started antibiotics as soon as she got admitted though in case it is really a bacteria that is causing the fever.

The doctor will let me know today if he can send Olivia home today and if she could attend the wedding tomorrow. There's nothing they can do to increase her ANC. Her body just needs to recover on its own and it could take until next week before her counts go up.

More updates later today once I speak to the doctor again.