Well, it has been a busy week for us! We had a pretty good week up until Friday night. I was flushing Kelby's line when the line burst. It was a pretty big hole. The doctor said we needed to get it out, so we had to go down to Seattle on Saturday. I clamped her line shut and put gauze and tape around the hole until we could have them pull it out. They were going to have the line pulled sometime later this month anyways, so at least they didn't have to replace the line. The doc went to pull it out...they just pull...no pain medicine or anything...but it broke inside of her instead of coming out. So, they had to surgically removed the rest of it. She had to be put under anestesia. She did really well though. We lost our Saturday, but at least she got those tubes out! She was a really strong girl.

She was ready to go the next day...Sunday...we went up to find our Christmas tree. We cut down a tree from up on the mountains. It wasn't too hard to find a good one. Kelby rode in the backpack on Mike's back and I had Tegan in the frontpack. We got our tree and headed home to decorate the house. Kelby had a great time!

On Sunday night Kelby started to feel pretty hot. We gave her some Tylenol and put her to bed. She woke up during the night still hot. We gave her Tylenol so her fever never got past 103 during the day. I called the Seattle doctors and they had us take her in to her doctor up here. He sent us over to get her blood drawn to see how her counts were. They had to prick her finger to get the blood since she doesn't have her line anymore. The counts were pretty good, but since she just had all that monkeying around with her line, they were afraid she might have an infection. Her temperature got up to 104.5 under her arm without the Tylenol. They made us take her to the ER to get blood cultures done and to get her a dose of antibiotics. Her rectal temperature there was 105.1. She had to get blood drawn from each arm, a catheter put in for a urine sample, and a shot of antibiotics in each leg that night. She did so well through it. She is a strong, strong girl. Her fever broke later that night. So far her blood cultures haven't shown an infection, but it could take up to 72 hours. She is feeling much better now that she doesn't have a fever. She had to go back to the doctor on Tuesday and get 2 more shots of antibiotics. They had to put so much medicine in that her legs really hurt and she could barely walk.

At any rate, she is doing much better today. She needs a little extra sleep, but besides that is pretty normal. If she does get another fever in the next few days, I'll have to take her right back in to see the doctor...just to be safe. At least we were able to do all this without going down to Seattle!
Tegan has a cold right now too. Man, this has been a tough week. Now I think I am catching her cold. Other than the cold though, Tegan is doing good. She LOVES "real" food...like rice cereal and mashed up peaches. She is belly crawling now. She's not quite up on her knees, but she is trying to get around. She sure has a temper too. When she doesn't get what she wants, she lets you know it!

Today was a pretty normal day. I got a few things done around the house which always makes me feel better. We are planning to have a bunch of friends over for a party on December 15th. I am excited about that. I hope they will all fit in our house. We'll play games and eat food...don't need too much room for that. I hope that everyone out there is doing really good and enjoying this holiday season.