Another transfusion appointment went well today in Manchester — my hemoglobin was 7.6, platelets were 6, and my ANC was 20, so I had transfusions of the first two, and won’t be going out in public much this week, if it can be avoided. I’ll find out again, either Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. 

It has me wondering how much a platelet (or blood for that matter) boosts those measurements, since I think I was 16 for the platelets on last Thursday, when I had a transfusion last, but it still dropped to 6, just 4 days later. But we can only sample it so often — sampling before and after a transfusion seems wasteful and impractical. If I can remember I’ll ask if the doctors know on Friday.

As far as work goes, I’m back to working on another old toy/jewelry design in Blender, this one based on hypocycloids. I got pretty far on it originally but it was never clear I could get it to stay aligned, and I wasn’t looking forward to iteratively determining what was feasible, but since Collin has a 3D printer handy it seems more feasible to give it another try.