Donor potential high

Jordan is still in the hospital. She feels great but her ANC is still well below 500, so she cannot go home yet. Today her ANC was 19.

I talked to Mati today to find out the results of the donor testing. She said they matched Jordan for 8 out of 10 markers and that Dr. Petrovich wants to hang on to this donor because the 9th marker that didn’t match is really not an important piece.

The 9th marker is for testing DQ and in the DQ it has 4 individual markers. The donor matches 2 out of the 4 and the other 2 normally aren’t tested by most bone marrow teams because whether they match or not is typically not relevant. This donor might be used to transplant Jordan’s marrow.

If Dr. Petrovic decides to move forward with this donor, they have to go through a series of tests and their marrow has to be worked up before it can be transplanted. This process takes about 4 weeks.

Jordan will probably go for bone marrow transplant somewhere between mid May and mid June.

Fever again

Went to clinic today for normal lab work and Jordan was feeling pretty bad. Her counts are way down because of the last chemo, as expected. She has needed platelets a couple of times this week already. She was running a temperature of 100.4 and Dr. Rossbach wanted to admit her because her counts were so low. He left it up to her and she decided to go ahead and get admitted because she figured she would hit 100.5 over the weekend.

About an hour later, while waiting for the platelets to come to the clinic, her temp went to 100.7, so she would have been admitted regardless on Friday. We were glad she at least got to spend 10 nights at home after the chemo.