The Johnson Blog

Today is Ana’s 30th birthday!  The day didn’t go quite as smooth as she wanted for her birthday (leaving work later than desired, having to get a raincheck for dinner out thanks to David’s head-first, running swan dive off of a couch, etc.) but it’s looking up! 
Here’s Mom and son after having enjoyed the birthday cake (made by [...]

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This coming Saturday is our 5th wedding anniversary (well that sure went quick).  To celebrate, we’re headed to St. Louis for some baseball followed by italian food.
I secured some tickets through Stubhub.com that will put us in the 5th row of Diamond Box seats behind the visitors dugout, complete with waitress service for when we [...]

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I just wanted to give all of you a heads-up on Ana’s platelet counts.   As most of you know, her counts were up to right around 300,000 after getting her spleen removed.  They stayed this way for a couple weeks, but two weeks ago she dropped down to 64,000. Yikes, we were a little freaked out, [...]

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Ana’s new PDA arrived today, the Asus A626, and it’s pretty darn cool.  Now I want one, but I have to keep telling myself that I’m near a computer for the vast majority of my day so there’s just no need…damn!
Ana discovered that along with her new job at Memorial, she was spending a lot [...]

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That’s the number of platelets floating around Ana’s body today.  A marked improvement over her previous dismal countings of 7,000 and 10,000.
So that was the real, first post-spleen-removal test they’ve gotten counts from her on.  Definitely a positive sign.  More tests next week to keep verifying.
Thanks again to everyone for all of your help, prayers, [...]

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Just a quick update for everyone - Ana is fine this morning, no more of the shoulder pain from last night.

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It’s 2am and we just got back home.  The surgeon that removed Ana’s spleen (and the one that had her go into the ER tonight - errr, last night) actually came in around 1:30 and talked with us and did a quick checkup.  He said that the pain wasn’t due to the gas used in [...]

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