There's No Place Like Home

It's that time of year where everywhere we look people are sick, yucky coughs, runny noses and sneezes and our little Sophia was one of them. Three weeks ago she came down with a cold and we were scared she would also come down with a fever, which we feared because then we'd have to take her into the hospital. She did pretty well with her cold and had no fever but she had a runny nose and a slight cough that didn't want to go away but as long as she had no fever and we kept her hydrated she was doing well. On the third week of getting over her cold she ended up developing a fever at the end of that week, last week on thursday evening, and by the evening I mean late at night, 10:30pm. I ended up calling the docotor on call to see what I should do because they don't allow her to take any meds like tylenol while going through her chemo treatment, so he advised me what to do and I did and by 1:00am we had to take her to the E.R. at Children's because her fever ended up going too high. So the nice thing about her having Leukemia (because believe it or not we have to look at positive things during this ugly time) is we don't ever have to wait to be seen. They were already waiting for her and took her in right away and started what they had to do. She ended up having an ear infection, we had no idea she had this because she showed no signs of it bothering her at all. They told us she would need to be admitted and they couldn't say when she would stay til, so the plan was to keep her there so they can keep an eye on her and administer more antibiotics throughout the day. We ended up staying 9 hours in the E.R. due to them running tests and running antibiotics in her and boy were we tired. She stayed awake til about 8:00am and finally knocked out for about 4 hours. They took us to her room where she and I slept for about 2 hours and finally the on call doctor came in and said she was being discharged that day because we could just give her the antibiotics at home. We were so happy because there's no place like home :) She's been getting better since then and her cough and runny nose have been disappearing. I forgot to mention that the same day she was admitted she was suppose to have her doctor's appointment/chemo treatment so that ended up getting cancelled because her counts were too low. We were fine with that because Sophia needs to recover and that might have made things worse. We watched her over the weekend because they said she could still get fevers, which she didn't, so she rested up because on Monday (November, 12, 2012) we had to take her back so they could do her chemo treatment. We went to her appointment where she was going to get her picc line dressing change and her 2 chemo treatments. She did really well with her dressing change, no crying at all, but her counts were too low so she only got one of the chemo treatments. Her doctoer didn't want to give her that second dose of chemo since she's still recovering, on top of her conts being low. So her next appointment will be for the day before thanksgiving. She is a little off track with her treatments so hopefully she will be able to get back on the next time we take her. Your prayers are much appreciated while we go through these holiday seasons and people around us are sick. We pray that Sophia doesn't get sick again for a while . . . or ever :)