St. Jude's Appt.

Zac, Olivia and I just got home from our appointment at St. Jude's. Great news! Olivia's hemoglobin is up to 12 - which is right smack dab where it should be. Her retic. test was 3.7, I think. If I have it correct, normal is 1, so her bone marrow has kicked it into high gear and is producing large amounts of new baby red blood cells trying to make up for lost time!
Now, her platelets are still low, actually lower than when we left the hospital on Saturday. Dr. Al thinks it is viral related. It's possible that she has/had Fifth's Disease, but we haven't heard the results from that test yet. Her rash is also back on pretty much all of her body, but this is apparently typical of her diagnosis. It doesn't seem to bother her or the doctors, so we'll just look past that.
So, we go back to St. Jude's on Tuesday and have more labs drawn. If her numbers look good and her platelets start to trend up, they said we won't need to come back! If her platelets are still low, we'll continue to monitor them.
All in all, a good appointment! Thanks so much for all the prayers for her bone marrow to get busy, they obviously worked!