Day 67 in Charm City

• WBC is 4010  (4500-11000)
• Neutrophil count is 3790 (1500-7800)
• Hematocrit is 34.5 (36-46)
• Platelets count is 28 (150-350)
• Transfusion scorecard: platelets (45); blood (25).

Picked up a couple of units of blood yesterday afternoon, which is the reason for the hematocrit jump. First blood transfusion in a week. As for today, we may be going to get another CT scan to compare with yesterday and see if improvement can be seen on the image. For now, oxygen saturation is holding steady and breathing is not labored. Wish I had more to report, as we are still looking forward to the IVIG showing some positive effect on the Guillan-Barre, and for the Tacrolimus to kick the GVHD out.

Factoid: The first seedless grapes were kind of an accident. Thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a random genetic mutation caused a group of grapes to spontaneously abort their own seeds before the seeds could develop hard casings. The result: seedless produce. To reproduce the fruit, a sly farmer simply cloned the vine (with no seeds, there’s nothing to plant)—meaning that all seedless grapes today are direct descendants of that one mutated grape vine.