Emergency room

Sierra had her first Emergency room visit since starting chemo, she made it a whole week. Friday afternoon her fever started to rise, so I called her oncologist and he said to bring her in.Luckily, since she is a cancer patient, we don't have to wait in the big ER and are immediately taken to a room, though we did have to wait there for quite some time, but at least it is private and has a TV.

Mom and Sis in our masks, checking in to the ER.

 She was accessed shortly after we got there(meaning she had a needle put into the port on her chest so she could be started on fluids and have her blood drawn) she was really worried about it hurting, the only other time she had been accessed was when they first put the port in and she was anaesthetised for that. She said it hurt less than getting an IV so hopefully she wont be so worried about it next time. After a few hours we were moved up to the oncology floor, it was around midnight, and we were able to finally go to sleep. Her ANC(white blood cells) was at a 28, which is very low. She has to be over 200 to go home, and have no fever for 24hrs. On Saturday morning they rechecked her ANC and it was at 48, so it looked like we were on the mend, but when they checked them again this morning they were down to 18. She felt really crummy all day Saturday, and didn't want to eat all day. She will drink ice water, and ice milk, but that was it.

Sis with her ice milk.

 Today was more of the same, she didn't even get excited for her Easter basket, I couldn't get her to smile for me at all. We decided to bring the kids up to visit her so we could all be together as a family for a while on Easter and she finally started to brighten. She even wanted to get out of bed and ride in the wagon to the play room and play some Wii. It was nice to see some light in her eyes, though after we left she has basically been sleeping, we must have worn her out. Dave is staying with her tonight so I can spend some time with Reece and Evy, but I am always worried when I am away. Hopefully when I go up tomorrow morning her counts will be on the rise.

No smiles on Easter morning, she loves snuggling with her big bunny though.

Finally feeling a bit better, she even ate a few pieces of her candy.