We met with Oliver’s doctors who explained generally what was happening and that they were certain Oliver had leukemia, but we needed to do a bone marrow aspiration to determine exactly which kind.  Before he could undergo these procedures, he had to have platelet transfusions.  In the early hours of the morning, Oliver had 2 platelet and 1 blood transfusion.  He was placed on three different types of antibiotics to fight/prevent infection.  They also indicated because of the number of blasts in his blood, we needed to do a spinal tap and put a shot of chemo in the spine (interthecal therapy).  The OR schedule was full, but they scheduled Oliver as a fit-in and at 6pm that evening he went into the OR for this procedure.  The child specialist, Amy (whom Oliver absolutely loves – she visited earlier) jumped into a “bunny suit” and went to the OR with Oliver so that he wouldn’t be scared.  They also installed a port at this time to reduce number of IV’s needed and for future chemo treatments.   After the surgery, was uncontrollably bleeding from a very small needle incision made above his port and received two platelet transfusions.  The transfusion finally kicked in after several hours and the bleeding was starting to subside.  We went back to the room around 12:30am 8/27/09.