[KimO]

Apparently our hemotologist is out until the middle of the month so I had to track down Shauna's BMB results from a week and a half ago. The nurse that read them yesterday said it indicated normal cellularity -- extra unexpected blessing -- but a 0.5% PNH clone. There was no clone noted in her original biopsy but her marrow was very empty so I suppose it's hard to say whether it was there and not noticed or has evolved. It apparently also indicates 1% blasts and unchanged from the last one. I don't remember them saying anything about blasts in the first one. Am I correct that blasts are just immature blood cells and that you would expect to see some even in a healthy marrow? Or is this something that should be watched even though it is a low number?