I am rudely awakened by a phelbotomist flipping on my light, good morning I'm here to draw your blood, and oh by the way its 6AM!!!! Well now I'm awake what to do?  I turn on the news and go from there.  Not feeling sick I didn't want to sleep anymore so I got up out of bed and moved to the chair.  Here at the luxurious LaGrange Hospital Resort you order your food like room service, so I look over the menu, and since I'm not really sick I can have whatever I want.  I stick to the safe stuff and order lucky charms and apple juice!!! I hang out for a bit then decide to take a shower,, mom comes and we forgot a hair brush.  I ask the nurse if its OK for me to go for a walk with my mom down to the gift shop and they say no problem.  We got a hair brush the ladies in the gift shop were like your a patient why are you walking around!!! I was so sick of sitting around already!!!  Mom had to go to Pleasantdale for the gingerbread house decorating party that we had already signed up for.  So I was by myself for a bit, Erin had brought me her old bible to read and I had mom bring my Christmas Cards to address.  Judy Ryan and Kimmy came to visit me for a bit and when they left Elise came up to visit.  In the meantime I met Dr. Harting the Hematologist from LaGrange Oncology.  She was super great to me!!! She explained a little more about ITP and how that she was giving me Prednisone to rebuild my platelets.  She told me that my ITP was most likely brought on from the strep throat infection that I had in November, but that there is no real way of knowing that.  She was so super nice and tried real hard to give me as much information as she could. She told me I should be able to go home tomorrow as long as the count kept going up.  At this time I think my count was at 29,0000.   She said they wanted to do an ultra sound of my spleen first to make sure that it wasn't enlarged.  And then she was gone and I had so much time on my hands!!!  That night Erin came to visit and mom brought Taco Bell, which was awesome because I tried a BLT for lunch and it was awful!!!!!  We hung out and chatted til about 11 and they decided to go.  I decided to try and sleep since I knew I would be rudely awoke in the morning again!!!