It’s never a dull moment!  We called the clinic and the Dr. wanted to see him.  We arrived at 10:30 a.m.  The Dr. thinks he might be allergic to the sun but it’s really hard to say. She said with all the chemo that has been in his body that even a small piece of dirt up his nose could cause irritation. 

We had good and bad news with his counts.  His ANC is 2,278!  Yeah!   His other counts had dropped. His platelets went from 207 to 110 and his hemoglobin went from 11.7 to 7.3 from two weeks ago.  The Dr. was concerned that his hemoglobin had dropped so low.  She is assuming that his body is trying to fight off the sunburn and is causing the counts to drop.

She wanted to run other blood tests and urine test to see if he was showing any other signs of break down.  All tests came back negative. Amen!  It sure does make you worry and wonder.

Because of his hemoglobin being so low, they gave him one unit of red blood.  This explains him being so tired over the weekend.  Since he had an allergic reaction to the last time he received a blood transfusion; he was given Benadryl and Tylenol.  That all went well.

Bennett will need another unit of blood tomorrow.  We left at 5:00 p.m. from the clinic so we decided to stay the night and go back as soon as they open in the morning.

Bennett’s sunburn is starting to peel on his arms and is looking some better.  His legs still don’t look good.  There is more of a rash on the bottom of his legs and is still really red with some discolor.  The Dr. gave him steroid cream to put on it.

 We ended up going to the movies and watching the football movie Leatherheads.  We didn’t really like it. Not enough action.

We are praying that his skin gets better soon.  And his counts go up and he has no allergic reaction to his blood transfusions.