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Quick Question About Lab Trends
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Complex medical history including mitochondrial disease and associated conditions as well as fairly well controlled juvenile onset lupus

Many medications

Background: I was just discharged following a short hospitalization (Dec 18-Dec 20) to address a suspected infection in my picc line. The initial culture drawn outside the hospital by home care came back positive for anaerobic gram positive cocci that turned out to be coagulase negative staph. Based on a white count that was not elevated and stable vitals, I was discharged home with no further treatment assuming contamination unless further cultures grow positive (the subsequent picc culture was drawn after one full IV dose of Vancomycin through a peripheral IV). While in the hospital I received IV Vancomycin every 12 hours from 4pm on the 18th through 9am today. I also had a viral panel done that was negative and no specific symptoms (did have fevers at home up to 101, and ongoing fatigue, loss of appetite, inability to stay awake, headache, nausea, etc).

I had a CBC drawn on the 16th with the initial labs and then again on the 18th in ER and this morning. Are the downward trends anything that needs monitoring? The doctors are so busy they seem to be leaving the room as they enter so I did not have a chance to ask and received no follow up instructions.

Labs: https://imgur.com/a/MHrHJqO (the hospital sometimes sends out labs to a larger hospital not too far away and sometimes uses in house testing so there are two different reference ranges)

Thank you!

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