Hospital Update

So far so good. Grace's energy went way up with a transfusion last night and her red blood cell count went up, too. So far they think she had an autoimmune reaction to a viral infection, but there's no reason yet why her body would attack red blood cells. Our pediatrician's best guess was hemolytic anemia, but apparently that's genetic, and we don't know of anything like that on either side of the family. They just wheeled her out to get an ultrasound for her kidneys. Dominic fell asleep in the wagon, so I decided to stay with him. She's very cheerfully going for a ride in the wheelchair. She's really in pretty good spirits, and people were amazed yesterday that she had energy when she was so anemic. Her color is pretty good now, certainly a lot better than yesterday morning, when she was yellow. Now she's just pale.
A whole team of doctors came through this morning, but that's mostly because it is a teaching hospital and they bring them around together and give them practice running a recap of the day's events and then a prognosis or plan. I understood about 1/4 of it, including that she has neither strep nor mono, and then that some tests haven't come back. But she isn't bleeding at all anymore, and for that we are all very thankful.
Gabe and Brandon were driven down for a visit today with the Felderhoff's (THANK YOU) and will probably spend the night with the Crockers again for stability's sake. We're missing Rosary tonight, but we know that everyone is praying and even Brandon's sister's mom has put in a request at their prayer chain at their Lutheran church. How wonderful! I think it's the best gift we could get. The Stzelec's and Felderhoff's gave us books and crayons and food, which was extra coolness. It was so good to see the boys and Dominic just about jumped off my back in excitement to see them again. Maybe that is why he's sleeping so soundly now!
I guess there's not much to report yet except that Grace is getting better, and there is a chance that we'll be discharged without knowing what the heck happened. Sometimes they just don't know. That is frustrating, but I know our pediatrician was intrigued in a big way and she won't let it drop if she thinks they shouldn't have quit on finding the source.
Thanks to everyone for being so kind. This is the way the world should always work.
I'll post more when I know more....