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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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Hi @statmatics. Thought I’d drop by this morning to see how Rachel is doing. Last we spoke, she’d had a filgrastim injection for her low neutrophils. I’d mentioned taking Claritin the next time to help avoid the bone pain that’s often associated with the rapid production of the white blood cells. Has she had another injection since? Has this been helping to raise her counts?