10/23/07 First Hospital Transfusion

I know this saga gets confusing (even for me), but I would like to give you all a quick update on what happened yesterday.

Yesterday I was feeling as poorly as I have, even though I had that first treatment last Friday. I was thinking that this red blood transfusion would help, but I was not supposed to get that until Wednesday, and I wasn't sure I could wait that long.

So then I got a call from the Dr's office telling me the good news is that my white count had dropped almost by 200,000, but the bad news was that the red count had also dropped. So they wanted to do the red transfusion as soon as possible, but they were unable to find a match for my blood /antibody issues. So, I asked 'what now?' and they said that they would try to find a 'best match', but that could not be done at the Infusion Center and I had to be admitted to the hospital so they could monitor me more closely (more risk of complications from an inexact match). So, they would call me when they found some 'closely compatible' blood. Around 5pm they called and said they found some blood, and so they tried to get me admitted into the hospital they were told 'no room at the inn'. So the Hospital would call me when they got a room available. Finally at 8:15pm we got a call, and a room was available. So we went to the hospital, and finally after a series of complications (room not ready, Dr not signing the order to give me blood) They started the transfusion at 11:45pm. With no complications, I was out of there at 6:30am.

I am not short of breath like yesterday, but still very weak. I have a call in to the Dr to see what all this means, and to figure out what my next steps will be. I am still thinking I will have my other treatment on Friday, but we shall see.

All for now.
Terry