Update--- hematology

I received a call from Dr. Morales the hematologist. He received lab results and found that Rylee was slightly positive for ITP. This means bad antibodies in her blood. This is a different issue than GI. He suspected that she has had an autoimmune problem due to her bone marrow biopsy last year. Her blood has never come back positive for this issue (or at least from what Danny and I are aware of) but it did this time. It is a 1 out 4 so it is very slight but still there. She will have to have the IVIG to "flush" out the bad antibodies and see if it helps stabilize and raise her platelets. Now here is the other issue. Since her spleen is very large it is trapping her platelets on its own. The IVIG will
raise them hopefully but not to normal and it will not shrink her spleen. We also don't know if her spleen will start to "eat" these platelets. We are faced with trial and error. The IVIG does have some scary side effects as well and reactions. We are going to try and schedule it for Monday and into Tuesday. Rylee will be hooked up
to an IV for 10 hrs and it will flush and replace the bad antibodies. I ask for prayers once again. She will also be facing her 9th scope on June 21. If the IVIG does what it is suppose to she will not have to have a platelet transfusion before scopes. Please pray that all goes well for both procedures and strength for all of us!!!

Thanks

Brandi
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