Wednesday morning

Claire got a transfusion of red blood cells yesterday after her weekly blood test. Last Tuesday her red blood cell count was low but they wanted to give her a week to see if she would produce her own red blood cells... not yet.

Her growth is still slow. Her weight will probably be up today because of the transfusion. She needs to put on another couple hundred grams before she can move out of the isolette* and regulate her own temperature.

The Workers have arrived and are begriming work on Claire's room. Today they will insulate the exterior wall and begin drywalling. Mark and a friend took the plaster off this wall in preparation for this event. We also want to replace the aluminum-framed window with something more attractive (I wonder what happened to the original window?) as well as re-frame around the window which was heavily termite-eaten.

*(I just found out that "Isolette" is a brand of incubator, but is often used generically like Kleenex or Xerox.)