Twisted Ankle

Loretta didn't have a fun night last night. She fell
asleep in the conference room next to her own room and
got up too quick. She twisted her ankle and fell.
Her ankle has swollen up now and she'll need help
getting out of bed for the next couple of days. They
gave her some platelets as a precaution, but don't
think this should affect her overall treatment other
than having a sore ankle.

She didn't sleep very well last night, so Doug called
to give us the update and suggested that Gail might
call later this afternoon to see how she's doing.

The report we got at the end of the week was that
Loretta's white blood cells are still low which means
she's very susceptible to infection. This is why her
doctors have asked to keep visitors to family members
only. We certainly do appreciate your thoughts,
prayers and cards, but please wait until Loretta is
stronger and her immune system is built back up to
visit.

On another note, we're off this morning to our third
"birth awareness" class to get a tour of the facility
and the birthing rooms they have. There are 29
available! That's a lot of babies in one place!

It sounds like they've got a pretty good handle on
security and matching parents with the right baby so
we don't have to worry about coming home with the
wrong kid. Remember when all you had to worry about
was keeping the kid from eating rat poison? Now
there's hospitals switching babies, people
masquerading as nurses to steal babies and all kinds
of crazy stuff. Our nurse has already instructed us
to be very skeptical of anyone trying to take the baby
out of the room for any reason. I'm sure we'll get
more details on this today.

Thanks again for all of your support.