The day my heart sank

we got a phone call from our Dr in FMU today....man i have never been so nervous on the phone in my life.

He received a letter from the red cross, it was regarding the blood from Rileys first IUT. Mind you this IUT was in August! Anyway, he went on to tell me that the donors blood tested positive...my heart sank, as a parent i obviously went to all the really bad things that it could have been. Anyway, for some reason they failed to inform the Red Cross they had been to a malaria infected region and their blood tested positive for the antibody.

They retested the blood and it seems that it came up negative so they were saying it may have been from a past infection and the chance that it will have been transmitted were remote. He emphasized the remote part, saying that is the exact word that they had used.

Thankfully she has been well, no fevers or anything like that so it is highly unlikely that anything has been transmitted.

He is sending a copy to her paed so he can follow up in how he feels necessary. If she is going to have blood taken for anything else then throw in the malaria test but otherwise there is no point taking some blood...although as horrible as it sounds it would be nice for peace of mind.

But WOW!!! I am still a little shaky from the whole call and of course now i am going to be super paranoid of any temps she gets, no matter how little they are!