2nd Blood Transfusion

Nurse Connie of the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) called Sandy last Thursday. She told Sandy that her numbers in her most recent hematology results were low. For this reason, Connie suggested that Sandy have a blood transfusion, as she did <once before>.

Connie said that it would be best to have the transfusion as soon as possible. Both Connie and Sandy got on the phone with various medical personnel to make the arrangements. On Friday, the very next day, Sandy and I checked into Riverside Medical Center's Infusion Room, in the C Wing, 4th floor. She received two units of blood over a four-hour time span.

Sandy considers a blood transfusion to be "creepy," but the fact is that she had been tired. After the previous blood transfusion it took roughly fifty hours before she began feeling like her old self again. Today is Sunday, as I write this, so we figure that she'll start feeling better sometime this evening if not before.

Her feet have been feeling as if she's standing on hot coals. Anything to cool them off is a godsend to her right now. Well, this past week we had about 220 rolls of sod put into our back yard and along the east side of the house. New sod requires watering to keep it moist. I had sprinklers on three hoses and a fourth hose with a nozzle. She opened up that nozzle enough to spray a mist and aimed it at her feet to cool them off.

The smile on her face said it all.