To cut a long story short we think that the last results Rosalind had 20 days ago were the wrong way around - ie the % or bloods that were attributed to her donor and any residual old bone marrow were shown the wrong way. So there was quite naturally a panic.
These results had been showing the original trend of most of her blood types being100% from her donor - which is great. One particular type of white blood cell had been hit hard by some drugs she was taking and the donor percentage had gone from 20% up to 50% and then back down again, which is why she had some 'donor stem cell top-ups'. These had been making a gradual recovery until 10 days ago. And the results from last week confirm that and show a healthy improvement.
So the doctors think the test results were wrong from 20 days ago as mentioned
They are rechecking the latest results, to double confirm that. They had spotted a couple of minor cell deformations on the last test - which may or may not happen often as they rarely do that test unless they are worried about something else
We graphed her results assuming that the 20 day ago tests were attributed incorrectly, and it shows a regular trend in the right direction.
So the outcome appears that the panic is over
Our guess is that she will then get a couple of more top-ups to push the recovery along faster
As soon as she was told she perked up enormously - these things put a great weight on you. So within minutes she was 'organising' us again :-)
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