We received a call from the hospital with regards to Minzy's new condition: Neonatal Thrombocytopenia. Apparently her platelet count has been constantly deteriorating, but they do not know the cause. they asked if i could come down for a blood test to determine if it's a hereditary factor. i read that the only way to cure this is a blood transfusion, but as they are not sure of the exact cause the remedy can't really be determined. currently it doesn't pose a big threat... but it could mean constant blood transfusions and a need to be careful of everything that causes a cut on her T_T
neither me nor nampyeon has a shortage of platelets or anything odd in our blood (nor anyone else in our families)... i highly doubt it's hereditary... sighs... i guess we can only know once we have our blood tested. Minzy gets a blood transfusion whenever her platelets run low. poor baby... getting blood tests everyday......T__T
9 Jul
so we went down for our weekly visit and had our blood drawn for the test. at first the doctor only needed my blood but after that they decided that the father's blood needed to be drawn too. nampyeon hates needles but seems there was no way out.
when we got to the nicu area, a male young doctor came over to draw our blood. from the way his hands trembled while drawing nampyeon's blood... i could tell it's bad news. i had enough blood drawn to determine who will be poking me more than once to get the right vessel. joking, i told nampyeon that maybe he would be unlucky enough to get himself poked several times.
karma hit me right back. the same doctor poked me TWICE and could not find the vessel. he called another doctor who also had trembling hands, and also poked me TWICE before he decided to draw from the back of my hand that had the largest vessel. they were moving the needle around every poke - it was terrible T_T
Lesson learnt: always have doctors who look inexperienced draw from the back of my hand............. and never laugh at someone scared of needles. whenever i think i have the worst luck in needles... i think of Minzy who gets poked almost every week in different places for 2 months now. that tiny body with all the holes. and i immediately know - these are not even actual pains.
we proceeded to see minzy after that. she was 930g and so much bigger!! and she had changed to the lighter respirator, which gives less air but since she was able to breathe properly it seems ok. the respirator and pacifier looks like santa's beard. amusing.
she kept fluttering her right leg. i wonder if it's a baby's jerk. she also likes to stretch her hands over her hand. hehe. such an active baby. and that little yawn at the back she tried to cover up...
i could see more of her face now that the big respirator was off and she is so so cute. at first she kept covering her right eye with her hand, and when i peeked over at the top her right eye was actually opened. and then, as if caught, she lowered her right hand.
Minzy finally opens her eyes to look around. she has a habit of spitting out her pacifier. i wonder if she dislikes it. but her saliva went all over the place after she punched the pacifier out. oh nooo. i get to see her full face though! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee love her so much!!!
did you catch her iron man fist after she punched out the pacifier...? and all that stretching that follows. *love*
i think her leg kicking is so cute. i can't get enough of her. but i was chased out by the nurse after that oh well.
daddy got to see her full face from start to end though. he even captured her doing a manse pose just for that 2secs he was distracted.
and then he was chased out by nurse as well just when she became ever so active towards the end of the visit. sighs.
i think this is probably minzy at her healthiest and most active stage? but i did notice something weird when i looked at her eyes. the black portion of the eye seem to keep moving away from the white portion. but i didn't know how to explain to the nurse so i just said the eyes seem weird. the nurse didn't think too much of it and brushed it off. but it seems that it was an indication of a bigger problem to come... sighs...
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