Hello everyone,
I posted here a couple of weeks ago, regarding my 23 yr old Daughter being test for Leukemia..... well on Dec 12, she under went the Bone Marrow Biopsy and aspiration.
Here WBC is only 11.7 but has been that for apx over a year. and in 2005 she had irratic high WBC between 13 and 21.9 do to a kidney infection, 3 wks later appendix removal in her 8 mo of pregnancy, C Section 3 weeks later and gall bladder surgery 4 weeks after that.
The Blood Disease Specialist didn't do another WBC or Blood Smear, he just scheduled the Biopsy.
Does the procedure as I am going to describe it, sound normal....
It was done in-office.... The Dr administered the Litacane sp? not even 20 seconds later he reached for the scapal, and made the incision to her bone for the biopsy..... of course she screamed, she said she could still feel everything.... he waited apx. a minute and half, and inserted the aspiration needle.... which caused severe pain...(She normally has a very high tolerance to pain)... she was crying and trying not to scream ... immediatly after that he took the tool/needles to pull out the bone biopsy, which was even worse. The only way I can describe this procedure was Barbaric!!!!
She wasn't given a sedative or anything before hand.... she wasn't given any written after care for the incision site.... she was bleeding the day after, with sharp pain to her bone... down deep , and only a compression pad was applied, and the day after verbal instructions, that she could remove it.... it is open, and more like a oblong hole than a tight cut... if that makes sense.
From what I have read... the procedure is uncomforatable and can cause pain... but can be handles by children's and adults..... She said she almost passed out from the pain... I'm sure not waiting for the numbing medication for her skin before he cut her didn't help, set the tone for the rest of the procedure or is this how most Bone Biopsy go???
And no we wait again for 10 days to get results back.
Very fustrated, and feel my daughter was brutalized.