Who needs the blasted spleen anyway??!!! - Day 1

I am so touched by everyone's emails and blog comments of concern, relief, support and prayers. I am so relieved that we crossed the first hurdle - I feel this immense load melt away from my shoulders that I've been carrying all these days since we stepped into the ICU - now let's hope the doctors' assumptions are true, that the spleen was sucking up all the platelets like this hungry alien monster - lets hope it rises now!!! Nook will wake up and be so happy to find it gone!!! Who needs it anyway???! (Thanks kris for allowing me to borrow your line - i echo your sentiments) - He always hated it - it had been giving him so much grief over the last 2 yrs - amrutanjan, Bengay, iodex, icy hot - nothing worked - the resulting body and bone pain always kept him up in the night. His breathing is more synchronized now with the ventilator - he looks relaxed... He is being constantly refueled with platelets and blood and other blood products. He had 14 units of platelets today. I hope the platelets go up from low single digits to high double digits.....