Rachel’s blood counts came back really low when they checked them yesterday, so they had us bring her to the hospital for a blood transfusion and a platelet transfusion. Platelets are generally faster to infuse than blood (1 hour versus 2), so they started that first. She had an allergic reaction to the platelets, so they had to stop the transfusion for a while and give her Benadryl. Then they infused the rest of the platelets at a slower rate. Finally finished the platelets around 6:30pm. Rachel kept her sense of humor, as usual, and was taking selfies of her puffy eyelid (from hives.)

We then had to wait for the blood to be ready; that didn’t get started until 7:30pm and they infused over 3 hours instead of 2 because of the earlier reaction. We didn’t get home until almost midnight.

Rachel got another visit from a service dog for her trouble, though.