What did the blood donor eat???

It's Friday!!! Yeah!!! Austin has been feeling pretty well. A little sluggish but I believe from low red blood cell count. He has been a little better each day and still is drinking lots of milk. His eye is looking better but still bothers him some. Funny thing is it only really bothers him at clinic. Must be something in that room or what they use to clean. Today he need red blood cells like I thought. The transplant doctors don't premed like Dr. Patel does. They also don't give as much blood either. Patel gives Austin a while unit over usually four hours. Today they were giving him about half a unit of two hours. At about almost the end of his transfusion he broke out into a rash. For the first time ever Austin was having a reaction to blood products. The rash was getting worse. They stopped the transfusion and and gave him benadryl and a steroid. His mouth was on fire. He kept drinking his milk. Finally he fell asleep and slowly the rash would go away. Our nurse Delores had to fill out loads of paper work and had to take a blood sample from Austin to send to the blood bank. So probably for now on before blood products Austin should get premeds to keep him from reacting. It was funny what Daryl the nurse practitioner said, "did that donor it strawberries and your allergic to them?". It makes you wonder. Well we didn't get home until 5:30 and he is still a little out of it from the benadryl but seems to be fine to play with his toys. We go back tomorrow which we are pretty sure he needs platelets. His white cell count has dropped which we figured would happen. We are still praying for next week. The big week when we should see if the transplant worked. Please say a prayer that the new cells took and do the trick!!

Elizabeth