Courtly Transfusion

With hemoglobin having dipped to 7.7 yesterday, after being at 8.6 last Monday a week ago, women after middle age having normal values of 11.7-13.8 gm/dl, The Countess has left Court for the day, in the company of The Lady-in-Waiting, to be transfused with 2 pints of red blood as arranged by the Court-appointed hem/onc physician and hospice-nurse. As the Page, across the Atlantic in Europe, was informed during a phone call with the Lady-in-Waiting, as The Countess was just beginning this approximately six-hour process, the need had evidenced itself already in increasing fatigue and breathlessness, and The Countess was antsy to get started, rushing her Lady-in-Waiting from the moment the nurse had telephoned the arrangements. Fifteen minutes had seemed a long time to get out the door, and The Countess had to admit, when the Lady-in-Waiting asked if she feared they would give away her reserved units or otherwise run out of blood before they got there, that this was surely not the case. We suspect she is anxious to get this out-of-Court procedure behind her, ease her breathing, restock her energy, and resume her throne on Chicora Court as quickly as possible.

Best wishes for her becoming more cantankerous again!

(Forgive me, L-i-W!)