Pete's father drove him into the city for today's bloodwork. It was good timing because yesterday afternoon I was doing some puttering outside and tripped over a 4x4 in the garage and fell headlong into some wood, putting a nice gash in my forehead. It's about 2 1/2" long and required both interior and exterior stitches and a CT scan to make sure my grey matter was A-ok, which it was. I've got a pretty hard head in more ways than one. No headaches, but the area along the cut is swollen and hurts like heck.
This afternoon we had a bit of a fright because Bruce went out to see what Pan was barking at in the back corner of our yard and found him face to face with a raccoon that was, very fortunately, on the other side of the fence. After he grabbed Pan and brought him inside he went out again and saw the raccoon walking very oddly along the neighbor's fence until it disappeared into the thick brush and bushes. On advice of our vet, we took Pan over for a rabies booster. Better safe than sorry, especially since he'd be due for it in December anyway.
Pete came home with a WBC of 0.8, up from 0.5, so the Neulasta is doing it's thing. The RBC is down to 3.09 and hemoglobin is down to 9.7 from 3.31 and 10.7, respectively, last Thursday. He's scheduled to go in for another blood workup Wednesday. The hemoglobin is a concern because if it gets down to the critical number 9.0 or below, it will require a blood transfusion.
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