I go in tomorrow for the changing of my catheter. I received two units of packed red blood cells today in preparation for the surgery. I will first get platelets in the morning but to receive blood and platelets in the same day and then have surgery would have been impossible. The blood takes about five hours to transfuse and the platelets another two hours. That is why I received the blood today so we can go ahead with transfusing the platelets and then surgery about 9:00 in the morning.

A. G. will post to the blog while I am in the hospital and unable to do so.