No Blood / No Platelets

August 22, 2023

No Blood / No Platelets

I struggled to get out of bed this morning, 6:30am is rough. I didn’t take my morning pills and felt sluggish. I was already outside waiting for J when he pulled up to the house. It’s like a full time job. I have been at the infusion center every day at 7:00am since I returned from the hospital. It’s absolutely exhausting. I needed to get blood and platelets this entire week would usually runs 6 1/2 to 8 hours. Nothing fun comes from that – stuck in a chair for a workday even with heat and snacks. I’d rather be home. I dreaded this morning pulled up to the infusion center waved hi and got my blood drawn. The earliest the platelets could arrive would be at 11:00am – my ending labs had my platelets at 23 however this morning I retained most of it and stayed at 17 with a hemoglobin of 8.2 rendering me stable! I get to go home I get to lay in my bed I get to do a little laundry all great things.

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Hello, my name is Nina. I am a mother, wife, daughter and friend. I am lover of country music, & 80’s love ballad. I love me some karaoke! I identify as hot mess mom. I get it wrong, all the time. On the rare occasions I get it right? Even I’m shocked.

I am a working professional in the field of Compliance. I am mother two, daughter to immigrant parents, wife to a “redneck” – and proud of it, sister-in-law to the two most incredible human beings I have ever met and a niece that is just so cool but doesn’t know it.

I work too hard and play too little. I’ve always focus on the wrong thing and never quite sure if I’m ever enough. I grew up on the East Coast and was a latchkey kid in the 80’s and 90’s – I dodged the sketchy people on the walk home and tried not to end up on a milk carton.

I went to a very privileged Boarding School on the East Coast and college after that. (So yeah that’s exactly why this journal will be riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. On the days I feel good, I’ll type it out. On the days I don’t feel good it’ll be voice to text. I can not be held liable for the things Siri puts in as my “voice”. ) Graduated on a Friday and started Fleet Bank on a Saturday. I hustled my way through the midnight shift at DHL and hustled and hustled and hustled. I knew nothing except the hustle. (As I said, I’m a hot mess mom).

Battle Hymns of a Hot Mess Mom