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Thanks, Lori. Who would guess? Claritin? We will run it by the hematologist tomorrow. Yes. Blasts were in the blood soon after the Filgrastim shot. The hematologist does not like it for that reason. -- Our main question tomorrow is what caused Rachel's neutrophils to increase during her hospital visit of February this year. Why did they go up? See chart.

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statmatics | @statmatics | 4 days ago

I asked the doctor about the neutrophil increase while Rachel was in the hospital. You can see from my chart that her neutrophils are historically low, but, during her February hospital stay, they shot up to almost normal. The hematologist surmises that, because she was fighting a major sepsis infection in the hospital, the bone marrow went into overdrive and produced white blood cells to save her life. Thank you, bone marrow!

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