Well today has been a somewhat good day for Paula. We got her up out of the bed and she actually got a REAL shower today with a good exfoliation of her dry skin and a wonderful massaging head scrub...(the lil things in life we all tend to forget about that make us feel so good!) Dr. Jalil came in mid day and had a chat with Paula. He is going to try and shoot for maybe Monday to do the TIPS procedure. Her white count is back down in the normal range, but a few of her other lab values were a bit off. So she got a pint of blood today and will be rechecked to see if she needs more to help stabilize her and prepare her for "hopefully" Monday's procedure.
It is now official that we can all donate blood in her name at any of the OBI blood donor sites. This will help compensate the amount she would have to pay for the blood products. Also if she cannot use it then rest assured there will be someone else who can, it is a great cause, who knows maybe one day you might have to require some blood!! If you decide to do this when you get to the donor place, inform them you are donating blood in honor of Paula Crawford (I will be setting up her acct on Monday with OBI and will post other information if needed). So if you need more info about this, please feel free to contact me @ rbr.reagan@sbcglobal.net or 405-831-5320. We are still planning on meeting Tuesday night @ 7 at the Cleveland County YMCA for her fundraising meeting (if any changes we will be posting to let you know so check back frequently). Hopefully all who wish to volunteer to help Paula's cause can attend. It would be great for her to know all of you support her! I was told today Carol/Susan (Heather's in-law family) had a garage sale and sold donuts to help out!! They made $34 for Paula!! YEAH!! This is awesome. Any little bit helps and gets us excited for the next event.
She has received many cards, flowers and phone calls and is so truly appreciative of them; however, she is still very weak and is not ready yet to converse on the phone too much. So if you try to call and cannot speak with her it is just because she is trying to harbor her energy to apply it to her getting better, not to be offensive!! She does truly love and care about each and everyone.
So hopefully this has caught you all up to date and PLEASE, PLEASE, keep her in your thoughts and prayers as this is a very terrible time and is very scary to her and her family. It is a harsh reality check that no one ever wants to go through. She will have a long, long road to recovery and is not quite out of the woods at this time.
Will post again hopefully tomorrow, if not then definitely Monday to keep everyone up to speed.
Thanks for all of you who have been following along. Paula really does appreciate it!
***RACHELE*** ;0)
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