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Friday, July 4th:

July 5th, 2008 Posted in Daily News Post

Well, we had hopes of going home today but reality got in the way.  Chloe woke up with little to no energy.  All morning was the same.  When I spoke with Dana I suggested she ask the Doctors about a transfusion as the red cells were way down.  As you have it, the doctor came in and said, “I think we are at the point we need to transfuse her.”  I’ve been around hospitals WAY too long. 

Of course this put the kibosh on us getting her home tonight.  She is still planning on being home sometime during the weekend.  So I’m going over in the morning to start cleaning the house! 

Sometime after 5 pm they hung the unit of blood for her.  Chloe was grossed out so they put a pillowcase over the pole so she wouldn’t have to look at the blood.  It was transfused at over two hours.   

When I was finally able to get to the hospital the transfusion was in its last 45 minutes.  I wasn’t seeing much improvement in her energy at that point.  Within another hour I’d say her energy started picking up.  Those good ol’ Red Cells sure do make a difference. 

Dave called and Chloe was able to speak with him for ten minutes or so.  She was reluctant at first, as phone conversations tend to wear her out, however, this seemed to do the opposite.   

Our plan was to go to the sky bridge on the 5^th floor to watch the fireworks at 10 pm.  Originally I was told this was outside.  It turned out to be inside but way up there.  We wheeled Chloe in a chair, hauling “Harold”… the IV pole… along with us to the viewing area.  We were right in front of the Waterfront Blues Fireworks and we could see and hear well.  Chloe took a ton of pictures and had a great time.   

After leaving the sky bridge we had her walk to the room… and then take a lap around the unit.  When we went in the room I suggested we go try and pull up the YouTube that Colin put together.  Chloe jumped at the chance.  She wanted to see it as bad as we did.  Bummer, the security protections on the hospital computers prevented us from opening the video portion.  We left to go back to the room and Chloe wanted to take a side trip to the Starlite Room to look around.  We did, she did and we left for her room.  She all but ran back to the room.  I had to keep the IV pole moving!

Back in the room I tried to pull the video up and it worked!  It’s titled “A strong little girl.” So the three of us sat through a couple viewings of it.  Colin did a nice job… although he really needed to check his spelling.  Aaarrrgggg.  We’ll have a little discussion with him later about the rest of his site I believe… 

Vital signs tonight turned up a 100.1 temp.  This is still in range of being okay but it’s more than we want to see.  We will watch it and see if it controls itself before adding any medicine to bring it down.

Today was just another typical day in paradise.  One up, two down and a bunch sideways.  We are hopeful tomorrow will bring better news.

 

Blessings!  Ron