Rise And Shine

Like clockwork, the staff came in this morning at 4:00 A.M to take Nonnie's vital signs. She quickly slips back into a deep sleep as Papa stares at the ceiling. Good thing he is a reader! He just turns on his light and grabs a book to get sleepy again. The bummer part is that he keeps picking up the book that features his favorite action character and does not go back to sleep. At least he is not reading one of those books with Fabio on cover!

Nonnie's blood counts are dropping again as expected. Her white blood count is down to 0.2, her red count is 9.9 and her platelets are down from 24,000 to 17,000. In summary, what this means is that tomorrow she will likely need a transfusion of either fresh blood, platelets or both. Dr. De-Vos mentioned this morning that they will "cross-type" the platelets in an attempt to find a more suitable donor. In the meantime, she is off of the anti-nausea medication because she has not felt any signs of sickness. She is to tell her nurse immediately if she begins to feel the nauseous and they will start her back on the medication.