Jasmine Stalker-Firth

We had a lovely day looking after Jasmine today. She was drinking 34 ml of milk every two hours. She was much more settled today. She got measured and was 50 cm long. She was drinking her milk and snoozing all day, wrapped up in her blanket wearing her nappy and her Eyore socks (thanks Auntie Zoe). Unfortunately just as she was settled and we were getting ready to leave she threw up.

At the end of the day we got an update on the white blood cell count in the dialysate (solution) after draining from Jasmine’s peritoneal cavity. The nurse couldn’t get a very large sample, as Jasmine was only on a fill of 70 ml, but the result was 35.  Below 100 is a good result. She now up to a fill of 100 ml.

My copy of Pediatric Dialysis arrived through the post, 663 pages of everything you could possible want to know about pediatric dialysis.

Jasmine had her first EPO shot today. This is a hormone that is required for the production of red blood cells. It has also been used as a performance enhancement drug in the Tour de France.

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