We spent today, in a side room. Joni-Mai started her blood transfusion quite early in the day and it ran over 4 hours. She coped surprisingly well with being attached to a drip for the 5 hours (4 hours for blood transfusion and an extra hour for a flush to go through the line). She had no reaction and she even told the nurse off because she got a little bit of blood on her bed sheets. Immediately after having the transfusion, she had warmed up (low RBC was the reason for her being cold at Jo Jingles!!) and her cheeks and lips returned to a beautiful rose colour. Her bloods were showing no signs of infection but she was still neutropenic. She was not to leave hospital until her blood cultures had returned from the labs. These would take 48 hours so she was due to stay until Saturday at the earliest.
The afternoon saw Joni-Mai going for an X-Ray on her chest, to see if they could find a cause for her heightened temperature - as they were'nt seeing infection in her blood results. The doctors were slightly mistified because she was so perky and looked so healthy even though she was severely anaemic and she was showing no symptoms of anything like infection but she'd had a high temperature - which is an indicator for infection!
Daddy and Nanny came to see us on their lunch breaks, they both work just down the road in Romford. Joni-Mai enjoyed her guests and spent the afternoon still in her side room, watching films and making Christmas decorations for the ward. We were told that she was to stay in the room as there were lots of children with highly contagious illnesses. Unfortunately, this meant that she was unable to go to the play room or the outside play area and was confined to her small side room with only a TV and a few craft activities to keep her occupied - unfortunately, there is no CLIC unit nearby so each time Joni-Mai ends up in hospital, she will be confined to a room on her own which is sad, but it is necessary if we want to stop her from catching any horrible bugs.
Joni-Mai having her blood transfusion!
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