September 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 AM CDT

We are in the hospital!
Dianna had a platelet transfusion yesterday- Tuesday.
This morning, she had her surgery to insert her Central Line.
This will allow the doctors/nurses to draw blood and give her IV's or medication with out having to poke her each time.
It took much longer to complete the surgery than the surgeon first thought. He told us he should be out in 45 minutes to an hour, but it was two hours before Dr. Hermon came out to talk with us.
(I was getting worried!)
He said Dianna's vein on the side he wanted to use was the size of a ball point pen tip.
So now she has two extra holes with stiches. :-(
At this time she is still sleeping, because they gave her extra medication for the pain.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:11 AM CDT

Just a short update...

Dianna had a check up on Monday, Sept. 15th.
She was able to tour the Transplant Floor.
During the tour she got to meet the nurses that will be taking caring of her starting next Tuesday.

I can not believe that it is less than a week till we check in to the hospital (Medical City Dallas).

Please keep us in your prayers.
Thanks!

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Monday, September 8, 2008 4:10 PM CDT

Dianna and Nicolaus had appointments on Thursday, September 4th.

Dianna's labs are- white blood count: 5.1, red blood count: 2.70, HGB: 9.70, platelets: 37, NE#: .90, NE: 17.3

Dr. Goldman gave me a copy of th HLA Results for Dianna & Nicolaus- (Nicolaus is a 11 out of 12 match for Dianna.) :-)

Dianna:
HLA-A: 1,2
HLA-B: 8,15
HLA-Cw: 3,7
HLA-DRB1: 0301/28,0401
HLA-DRB3: 0101/11
HLA-DRB4: 0103
HLA-DRB5:
HLA-DQB1: 0201,030201

Nicolaus:
HLA-A: 02,
HLA-B: 08,15
HLA-Cw: 03,07
HLA-DRB1: 0301/28,0401
HLA-DRB3: 0101/11
HLA-DRB4: 0103
HLA-DRB5:
HLA-DQB1: 0201,030201

We are still on target to go into the hospital on September 23rd and have the Central Line placement on the 24th.