Another night in the hospital

Abby will be staying in the hospital again tonight. She had a blood test 4 hours after completing the transfusion. Results showed that her red blood cells and her platelet counts have gone up. The white blood cell count have gone down, which is not good. Along with the white blood cell count, her ANC (Absolute Neutrophil Count) has decreased as well. She is considered severely neutropenic and is at high risk for infection. Blood cultures are showing a possible upper respiratory infection which would explain why the white blood cell count is low. She will get a G-CSF shot which speeds production of white blood cell count and will boost the ANC.  She will get this shot every 24 hrs for the next 4 days.