We’re still waiting for the blood test results from bag 1. Bag2 just finished.
Tag: ana
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Tentative Time
Just a heads-up – the noon time is now tentative. They’re going to run another blood test and see what her levels are. Chances are good that she’ll need another bag before the surgery so it’ll be another hour+.
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Waiting
Just waiting around now for the platelets to be infused. Wait wait wait.
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Counts
This just in, Ana’s platelet count is 17,000. Anesthesiologist wants her to be at 85,000 before they’ll give the regional anesthetic and 55,000 before surgery period. They will be giving her the first round of platelets at 10, then do another blood check after that. Immediately after the blood test has been drawn, they’ll toss another bag on.
Note to self: they’ll be giving her IV steroids every 6 hours to replace her prednisone for the next few days (100mg).
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Platelets
A nurse came in a bit ago and said that they plan on giving Ana three bags of platelets – one before surgery, one during, and one afterwards. We’re still waiting for the one before to be delivered…
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Checked in
Well we’re up in the room now and she just received an IV, which was an ordeal. What’s a little blood on the floor between friends?
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T minus 5:45:00
Good morning everyone!
Here we are – just a few hours to go. Last night we rented a couple Wii games, Jay and Katherine came over, and we were able to make the evening go much faster than the day went.
We’re packing up the last couple things now in preparation of heading in to the hospital, so stay tuned…
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Recipe Slideshows
Chef has a feature called Recipe Slideshows which allow you to view a recipe fullscreen in a PowerPoint-like format that’s much easier to read while you’re cooking than the small text of a cookbook, or the regular view of a recipe in Chef for that matter. I’ve had that feature around for a while, but I noticed that Ana never uses it!
Her main complaint was that the ingredients weren’t always displayed so she’d find herself constantly flipping between the directions and the ingredients, to the point where it was just much easier to deal with the small text of the regular recipe window. This past weekend I made a few changes – the ingredients are always displayed AND it highlights the ingredients that are used for the current step. Click for the full image:
This is going into version 1.3 with a few other enhancements and fixes due sometime in January or February.
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Just a few more days
Well we just have a few more days left before the baby is born. Slowly but surely we’re getting the last few things done around the house in preparation. We’ll be going to the hospital at 8am on Wednesday (Dec 12th) so Ana can get full of platelets and she’s scheduled for csection at noon.
That morning, and all day, I’ll be posting updates to the blog from the hospital room. Don’t laugh – if you’re reading this then you know me and it shouldn’t be a surprise 🙂 Anyway, I’ll have everything setup to provide updates as the day progresses. As time permits I’ll even post some photos, so be sure to keep coming back.
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An Update
Just an update – due to Ana’s platelet complications and the expected size of the baby, we have a c-section scheduled for noon next Wednesday, Dec 12th.
We’ll be getting Ana to the hospital around 8am so that they can get an infusion (or more if needed) into her so her platelet count is increased enough to allow for a spinal block during the surgery. Since she’ll be getting up around 3:30am to take her prednisone (doctor’s orders), it’s going to be a very long and tiring day.
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