Fun at the Hospital

We're on day #3 in the hospital now. If you look at todays blood count information you see that pretty much all of her counts are low. The fever went away yesterday, and as a matter of fact we discovered that she is starting to get two new teeth (on the opposite side from the tumor). This most likely explains the fever, crankiness, runny nose, and lack of eating. We probably could have stayed home. With her counts this low she will need transfusions, so we would have only bought a couple of days anyway. Today she will get a platelet transfusion and a full unit of blood. After that we'll just be waiting for her ANC to get back up over 200. As you could see from the counts before I lost them, her WBC is still gradually decreasing and has just about bottomed out, so they will probably start to head back in the positive direction over the weekend (if we're lucky). Until that happens Kelby is stuck here. All in all she's doing farily well though. She's not eating much. She had M&M's and a little milk for dinner last night. They said any calories are good and that was the only thing she'd eat so ... She was pretty run down yesterday, but then got quite a burst of playfulness last night. She keeps waking up several times during the night though, pretty frantic sometimes, so Shawna and I aren't getting much sleep. I think for our own sanity we're going to instate a new rule where one of us sleeps back at home every night. The driving won't be so great, but it'll be better for us if we're not both exhausted all the time. Speaking of which, staring at this montior is making my eyes hurt so I'm going to stop now.