Cat food
Paint and brush
Detergent
Dish soap
Waffles
Re-fried beans
Bonecracker
Kickstart my heart
You don't always get what you want, but grace grows in the cracks.
Retics 307
I always make lists of things I need to get from the store, but the 6 items on this particular list are incredibly random, and this pleases me. Re-fried beans please me. And then I guess "Bonecracker" and "Kickstart My Heart" are songs that I wanted to add to my running playlist (and never did, which needs to be rectified immediately).
"Retics" is short for reticulocytes, which are baby red blood cells. Freddy has a blood disorder and we keep track of his numbers. His body needs to make way more red blood cells than the rest of us because his spleen destroys them at a rapid rate, which in turn affects his hemoglobin levels.
But my favourite part of this section of notes is the quote from who-knows-where (I think it came from my dad, actually): "You don't always get what you want, but grace grows in the cracks." What a timeless truth. Maybe it's under the re-fried beans, but grace is there, waiting to be rediscovered.
Neat random blast from your past. A sort of time capsule.
ReplyDeletewhat's a good retics number for Fred? was it an average day for him? or was this a low or high one? how often do you track his numbers? (yep, lots of questions )
ReplyDeleteI can't remember anymore, but I do know that he makes way more than the average person. We don't usually look at the retic count but his hemoglobin levels, and normal Hb in kids is 120-130 but his baseline is 90. He gets transfused at numbers below 80.
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