Today (Friday) Nathan's platelet count had dropped to 36,000 and they decided to do a blood transfusion of just platelets to see if that would be enough to overcome whatever was eroding his platelets and get him to the point where he could make more than he lost.
Normal is about 150K and Nathan started out about 100K and progressively declined over the last couple days.They think the problem with the umbilical cord and placenta caused some of mom's antibodies to get into baby's blood and that is deteriorating the platelets. If that's the case, one transfusion should do the trick. If not, they'll have to figure out what else might be causing it.
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