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…
Tag: pregnancy
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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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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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Hematologist
Today we met with the hematologist Ana has been seeing since her hospital visit. She had a blood test run and it came back at 27,000. “Not good, but OK” according to the doctor. We continued talking with him and asked explicitly about what would happen if she needs to give birth and her platelets aren’t at the levels the other doctors say they want them to be (50,000 for delivery, 100,000 for epidural). Much to our relief, he explained that once a bag of platelets gets infused, she’ll have levels of 250,000 in her. Her body would attack them as they have been, but it would be plenty high for delivery. And he would just keep giving her the platelets as long as she needed them to get her through the delivery.
Whew. I wish we would have asked that question 3 weeks ago.
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Blood Test
Ana has a blood test scheduled for 8am tomorrow morning. We’ll see if the last visit did any good. Stay tuned for more information.
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