I have been battling my cold all day long, so it made the day a little difficult to get through. I had two meetings today and they went well. Other than that, I didn’t feel so productive on my own. I did manage to help a few co-workers with their projects. The gave a dose Tylenol Cold and Cough to William and Keisha. The twins picked over their food… they really weren’t all that hungry because of their colds.

I am very thankful that William’s hemoglobin count was 10.2 yesterday. This means that he doesn’t have to have his blood transfusion this week. Next Wednesday we will go back in for another type and cross. Depending on what the count is next week, he may have the scheduled transfusion on Thursday. Dr. T. says that we don’t William to have the chronic transfusions for more than a year. This August will make it one year. After that point William will have a splenectomy. Why have a splenectomy? Because William had a sickle cell crisis last August, this makes him have a high chance of having another crisis that could be fatal. This is why JT, Dr. T. and I decided to treat William with chronic transfusions; an effort to keep the percentage of sickle cells under 40% and hopefully in turn reducing the chances of another crisis. The downfall of chronic transfusions is that it can cause high iron levels and liver problems. Since William began his chronic transfusions, his doctor and nurses have monitored his iron levels as well as the regular tests.

I am very scared of the day that William will need to have the splenectomy but in the meantime I can only take one day at time. He continues to take penicillin twice a day, folic acid vitamin every other day and Flinstones gummi bear vitamins daily.

Have you checked out 2000 Bloggers (caution: many images on the page to load)? This is a very interesting project by Tino Buntic.

Last month I posted a video of Michael Jackson performing Billie Jean live. Here is the original… the classic:

Download this song.

Jermaine Dupri- Welcome to Atlanta (Remix)

Of course I love the part where they are in St. Louis.

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