2nd Home!

Another fever, another trip to the hospital. So on Friday Kade got a platelet transfusion because his platelet count was ten. All his other counts were good though, so I thought we were in the clear. His white blood cell count was 10.5 and his neutriphil count was 9.8! Well Sunday morning he got a fever and off we went to the hospital. They did his blood work and his white blood cell count was 0.6 and his neutriphils were to low to count. They dropped to that level in less than a day and a half! He was getting GCSF injections that kind of artificially inflate his WBC counts though....but wow that's billions of cells dying literally over night... or so it seems!
This time though, he doesn't have a cold. We're not quite sure what he has. His fever is higher than it's ever been and he was nauseous and vomiting, which is very scary. He actually only threw up twice, but he's never done that before. His chemo doesn't even make him nauseous... the boy has an iron gut usually! So they have him on antibiotics and we are waiting for his blood cultures to see what kind of bug he has. If his cultures come back positive he will have to stay in the hospital for a full course of antibiotics. That will take two weeks, plus or minus a day. If his cultures come back negative, then we just have to wait for his counts to come back up. It takes at most 48 hours to culture the blood. If nothing has grown by then, it will mean that it is negative and home we go...if not, then here we stay. However on that note, little Ayzac is now fighting Pancreatitus and is being flown in from Kamloops hospital as we speak. So we will be here when they get here. What a nightmare! I long for the day when we get together out of a desire to see each other instead of medical reasons for our children!