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I left the kids and Angie in the new hospital room to run down the street and send out an update email. While I was gone, my friend Auhjun (my new police officer friend) sent me a text message that said, ‘I am at the hospital in your room. When will you be back?’ I text him back and said, ‘ten minutes.’ When I got back to the room, he was waiting outside. It is so cool how our new friends are developing all around us. While you all in the states are not able to be with us personally, we find new friends that care and make the hospital visits for us. By the way, I know I have done my share of hospital visits…. Music Jeff, have you requested the ADK hospital on the other side of the planet and selected the day you will be making your visits? Auhjun and the kids and I went to the little restaurant around the corner and had some dinner. It was a great visit.The doctor came in tonight and indicated that her platelets were back up to 50,000, but still too low. He decided to get some steroids into the IV drip. This should boost the platlet count. As a last result, he asked if we knew anyone here that could be on standby as a donor if she needed a blood transfusion. I really didnt want to hear those words, but he assured us this was only if the count dropped below 20,000. He thinks we are in the clear, but wanted to be ready. I could not remember my blood type, so I gave them a sample to see if I could be a donor. We have not gotten the results back yet. Our friends that are in country came back to the main island tonight. The volunteered to stay with our kids in the hotel room and allow me to stay with Angie at the hospital. Because we have spent some time with our new friends, our kids feel very comfortable with them and safe. I think I will sleep much better on the cot beside her bed than I did on my bed at our home. They noticed the place on my arm where I gave the blood sample and asked about it. I told them the situation and they said, ‘We are both O+ so either one of us could give her blood if she needed it.’ Music to my ears. Wow, oh how HE provides!!!! We are not at this point yet, but the basis are covered. I really anticipate she will be out of here in a couple of days. They have the IV dripping pretty quickly and she has put down 2 liters of water today. She feels like her organs are just floating around. Pushing the liquids and hydration should help the platelet level as well.We will keep you posted, keep lifting us up. We feel it!