The thrill of a private room at The Candy Land Hotel eventually must be tempered by the fact that we are there for medical treatment so here's the line-up. Tonight, as they will every night, they will draw blood to check her blood counts and see if she needs a transfusion and how her blood counts are responding to treatment. Next she will receive a platelet transfusion. At some point in all of this a specialized nurse will arrive and insert a PICC line (picture above, description link below).
http://picclinenursing.com/picc_why.html
She will then begin being administered prednisone which the doctor informed her will make her very hungry and (drum roll please) moody (can't wait...nothing better than being confined to a room with a moody, hungry person). Oh but it does get better because she isn't supposed to eat anything salty or sugary. Now imagine being locked in a room with a hungry, moody person who isn't allowed to eat anything they find yummy.
Next she'll begin an infusion of horse ATG taken four to eight hours a day (depending on her reaction) for four days. Then she leaps forth from the bed, does a pirouette and is magically cured :)
Will report in tomorrow.
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