Platelets, stat!

The tidbit for the day...the term 'stat' is short for the latin word'Statim', meaning immediately.   Duder is very low on platelets this week so Matthew is headed into CMH for a little platelet recharge today.  A normal person's platelet level is somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 - 450 x 109/L.  Matthew's is around 11.  You could tell this morning he seemed a little off when we went in to get him and he did not have one leg draped over the side of his crib and halfway through his escape plan.