Platelets are 10??!?!?!?!

Yeah Austin did need platelets. They went down to 10! That is so very low. When we got to Patel's office he came out in the waiting room to look at Austin and of course the first thing he looked at was his eye. He also said he looked pale and thought he needed blood, and asked what I thought. I told him platelets is what he needs. LOL. And yes he is neutropenic (where he doesn't have white cells to fight off infection). They also ordered a chest xray to check on the fluid in the lung. Patel specifically told Patsy to request a "portable" chest xray if we had to go get platelets (which we did)So while we were in the transfusion clinic (which was extremely busy) I asked if they would come up after his platelets or before. The nurse told me that we would have to go down to radiology for it. I said I thought Patel ordered a "portable" xray? She said the orders did not say that. I told her I didn't see Patel letting him go down to radiolody with his counts being so low. I heard him say "portable". So she said she would check. Later on when his platelets were finished and another nurse came in to turn the pump off and I talked to her about it and she said she would look into it. She left the door open and we could over hear her talking to the PCA and sounds like they read orders for a portable vertical xray. Mom heard this too. When our nurse later came in she told us that the orders did not say portable and that they just now requested so we would have to wait awhile. We had been there three hours, you would think they could have this better organized. Luckily they came up fast. So who knows what the orders said. We didn't get home until almost 3:00. We go back on wed and possibly will need blood. That is a longer wait and takes longer to give it. So we will be there probably about four hours or longer. Yuck!!! Oh well. Got to do what you got to do. Well, we will update later.

Elizabeth