breaking records

It's one thing to have the little league record for most strike outs. It cranks it up a notch if you set the NCAA record.

It'd be one thing to have the nurse tell you that they've never had to take so many vials of blood at their office. It's a little bit bigger still if they've never had to take so much blood before...and you're at a hospital. I'm guessing they do that a lot. You know...take blood.

Annie is the new Middletown Regional Hospital record setter for most blood samples ever taken.

The old record? 14 vials of blood taken.

Annie? She had 23 vials of blood taken from her - for 25 separate blood tests. On some level you'd have liked for her to do five more so she could have doubled the record...but we've got to leave room for the rest of us to still have a shot at it.

So they still haven't figured out what's going on with her. They tested her for a dozen or so things I've never heard of, and a few I had.

a B-12 deficiency. That doesn't sound so awful to me

lupus - um...that's no good. That's the one George Kastanza kept shouting at the hospital when he thought they were giving him really bad news.

The West Nile Virus.

Seriously? Um....seriously? West Nile? Who gets that?

So basically they're trying to find any prognosis that isn't M.S.

So basically we're praying for Annie - and you can to if you'd like