Blood and Platelets

It is about 5:30 Friday night and we are almost done here at the Huntsman Center. Marilee has gotten one unit of platelets and two units of blood. She said that her headache and neck pains have gone away for the most part so it is good to get these done. As always, Marilee has to test the system so after a couple of hours of taking her blood for typing and matching, the nurse came back and said that since the last blood transfusion that her body had developed an antibody against her blood or something like that and that it would take from 2.5 hours to 2 days to complete the blood testing and matching. After a couple of hours they came in with the blood so it wasn't quite as bad or long as we thought it would. She has gotten her day filled with watching HGTV, one of her favorite. I think that we have watch the same episode at least twenty time. As I write, the nurse is here telling her to get out of Dodge so we are going to do just that.