Monday afternoon Anna had a clinic visit with the cardiologists to have a follow-up echocardiogram and an EKG. Both looked just fine and any issues with her heart muscle from the prolonged tachycardia are clearing up and healing ... hooray! One of her blood pressure medications was even removed ... double hooray!
However, while in that particular specialty clinic, I asked the nurse to see if we could view Anna's lab results from the blood that was drawn earlier in the day by the home health nurse. The lab results were in.
Good news ... Anna has white blood cells again! Hooray!
Bad news ... she didn't have enough platelets.
It turns out the nurse practitioner in the oncology clinic was trying to get ahold of us at home to bring Anna in for a platelet transfusion. So another clinic visit that was supposed to be short turned out to be long, but only 5 hours long instead of 7 hours long this time.
Tuesday morning Anna had her weekly oncology clinic visit. We were in and out within an hour :)
On a different note, Anna's uncle, Chris Navurskis, is an avid cyclist and has joined the UW Health team for the MACC TREK 100. He is riding for Anna and in memory of another friend. The ride is on June 7 in Waterloo, WI (short notice, I know!). If anyone is planning to ride anyhow, or looking for a cause for which to ride, feel free to join him. Thanks, Chris!
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