Vampire Baby Strikes Again

The wife had her check-up hematology appointment today to monitor her hemoglobin and hematocrit (things that make up blood...for the most part) levels. And, suprise suprise...her levels have dropped down to "critically low" once again. So that means the last blood transfusion lasted all of 1 1/2 to 2 weeks. Awesome. She is having a second transfusion tomorrow. This time they are giving her two pints instead of 1, so hopefully this time it lasts at least a month, preferably longer. She most definitely will need to have a transfusion after delivering the little one...but this is getting pretty inconvenient. She's been trying to save up what few sick days she has left for the days immediately preceding huckleberry's birth (like after contractions start...which could quite feasibly go on for a week or more and she only has 3 sick days left)...but these damned transfusions mean she has to take 5-6 hours off of work and sit in a chair for that amount of time...bored out of her gourd while blood is pumped into her. Poor thing. She's been feeling very dizzy and nauseous and tired too.

We were just saying how easy this pregnancy has felt both for her and me...but we may have spoke too soon.

Good thing we love this little vampire more than we thought we could ever love anything...cause she's sure causing some trouble!