I cannot believe it has been more than a year since Lliam was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia. It’s been a long year, but all in all a good year. As you may know we have been “promoted” to seeing the specialists only once every three months at this stage, and today was D-day again. Lliam actually said that he was nervous on his way to the hospital…he regards his blood count results almost as a report card. Today, he had a good one! His hemoglobin is up to 115, platelets 72 and neutrophil count 1.3. In short, we have broken through the plateau and in the doctor’s words “Everything is moving in the right direction.” We are still a long way off full recovery – his white and red blood counts have just reached the very bottom ranges of normal and his platelets are not quite halfway, but at least we are getting there even though it is a slow process.
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