One More Night

Greetings from BC Children's Hospital! The doctors have decided to keep Noah for one more night. Not too sure why, since they stopped the Ondansetron and aren't giving him any more Gravol, either. I have an idea it is because of his blood pressure - they keep taking it, and it seems to be consistently low, even though they are giving him a LOT of fluids and he had a blood transfusion this afternoon. Hmmm. They haven't said why, exactly, but my powers of deduction tell me that is it. That and tomorrow morning they will do the l'asparaginase here in the room, instead of the clinic. They will start the ondansetron IV before they do it and watch him to see what happens. I REALLY hope it wasn't the l'asparaginase that caused the vomiting; our doctor doesn't think it was, but he was stumped.
Anyway, he is feeling perfectly fine and now, after the transfusion, has lots of energy and is getting quite bored. Good thing it is almost bedtime!
My cousin Debbie came today and brought Noah a present that some of you will find quite funny. A Canucks t-shirt and a collector puck.

She is a rabid Canucks fan and is always teasing Noah. (Who, by the way, has been heard saying that he doesn't mind if the Canucks win... reluctantly, but he is on record as having said it....) I think that if people hadn't started teasing him so much he might have jumped on the bandwagon, seeing as we are here in Vancouver (and he is cheering for ONE Canuck, just not the whole team, lol! He has a Dan Hamhuis poster from the newspaper up in our room at RMH) but the more people bug him the more he digs in his heels. He is so cute, they can't resist it. There is one nurse, Andie, who teases him mercilessly, especially if he happened to forget his Oilers hat that day. He is hoping that at some point he will get to meet some of the Canucks either here or at RMH. We have heard that they do come and visit those places once in a while.
I have to go, Noah wants to annihilate me at a video game before he goes to sleep....