How low can it go?

No really... how low CAN it go?

The home nurse came out to draw labs for Emmah and remove her port needle today. It had been in seven days... today being day seven. That's the rule of thumb... seven days. Now with the needle out she can at long last shower/bathe... if only she could stand long enough without tipping over because of a lack of hemoglobin!

I suspected that once the labs were run, that Emmah was going to be in need of a transfusion. I suspected right. Her platelets were at 16... not an all time low for her, but her hemoglobin was at 6.2 or 6.9 (like that .7 is going to make all the difference) and that... I think... is an all time low. Anyway, that would explain why she's been dizzy/lightheaded. Truth be told, we knew all along that her hemoglobin was low. She was at 8.5 after radiation (she still hadn't recovered from that when we started this round of chemo) and she wasn't going anywhere but down from there. So blood and platelets tomorrow bright and early.

Well at least after we get home tomorrow (from an exciting all day transfusion fest at the SPA) she can then take the long awaited shower.

Oh wait... no she can't.

Why's that you ask? (even if you didn't)

I don't think that she will be too hip on taking a cold shower. Why cold? Cuz the water heater decided (yesterday) that it had had enough and it was time to retire. It handed in its 2 minute notice by springing some leaks out the top. It must've been upset... for it was weeping.

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