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Well, we thought if we could keep Kelby more isolated when her blood counts were low that we could maybe avoid the Hospital. It turns out that we may have been right, but we ended up being wrong because we're back at the hospital. About a week after the chemo Kelby's white blood count goes down to about nothing which puts her at high risk for contracting bugs. At a temperature of 101 they automatically admit her. This happened last time between rounds too, and once we were admitted, they wouldn't release kelby until her ANC went back over 200 even though her bloodwork came up clean. She has been a little warm the past couple of days, just like she was last time, and then finally got up around 101 this evening. We struggled with making the call, because we're pretty sure that once we're here again, they're not going to release her until her ANC gets back up over 200. However, we don't really want to take any chances so Shawna called and told the doctor that Kelby was running a little bit of a fever and he said to bring her down as soon as possible, so here we are. We got down here at about 8:30pm. Yippee. The part that is making us pull our hair out is that once we got here and they took Kelby's temp, she's only running about 99 degrees, so we could have stayed home, but now she'll probably be stuck here for at least a few days. We'll just have to wait and see though. Que sera sera. Her platelets are getting kinda low so chances are she'll need a platelet transfusion soon anyway. By the way, thanks for all of your feedback on the website. I'm glad so many people are reading it. I know that it lets our situation seem a little more personal to you, which was the idea. I figure that the more personal it seems the more likely you all are to keep praying and not forget about us :) Let me know if there are other things you would like to see added or changed because this is for you and I'm open to suggestions. I'm already planning on changing the menu system.