Chewie doing better

Early Morning

Chewie's HCT counts dropped again to 10%. This isn't a very big fall but every percent in her current state is significant. She needs another transfusion. The nice thing is that we had blood left from the first donor, so this transfusion was not really that risky.

Her counts ticked up to 13% HCT but then settled at 12% after some time. The game plan is to now buy enough time until the immunosuppressive drug (prednisone) starts working. If Chewie's immune system can be suppressed, she will stop killing her own red blood cells.

Afternoon

Jolie and I went visit Chewie. That's right, the hospital has visitation hours! The visit was pretty difficult. All around the hospital are grown-ups crying hysterically.. one person after another coming out of a particular door with seemingly worse news than we currently had.. It was pretty damn depressing.

Chewie was in pretty bad shape, she was better than when I brought her to the hospital, but not much better. Her stomach was pretty bloated and she still looked pretty glazed over. My heart was breaking when we had to leave her there.. she did not want to leave with out us, and we miss her.

Evening

I got a call from the doctor and Chewie's HCT count is holding steady at 13%! This is great news. Jolie and I are starting to feel pretty good about things and hopefully this progress will continue.