Thursday
Unit 1
Room 1110
Nurses:Renee and Laura
So its been awhile since we blogged and overall its seems we just are blogging less but its really a good thing. You have been spending increasing time out of hospital and keeping us busy to make the most of this time away. The last round has been our best so far, we spent 5 days in hospital, 12 days in Calgary waiting for counts and side effects and 4 nights at home. All that with no major side effects! Your counts did drop to zero for ANC so you were very susceptible to infections again or mouth sores, but they never came.
We came back to hospital on Wednesday, but you had a runny nose for the last 4 days at home, it was clear and no fever so we assumed it was just allergies. We started chemo anyway and after a day of isolation the doctors agreed and you now can also do your rounds in the hallways between chemo treatments. This all adds up to 5 days in hospital, that won't be miserable (total of just over 2 hours of being hooked up a day). We should also be able to go home to Medicine Hat on day 6 in relative safety as it is not likely your counts will drop all the way to zero. We are using G-CSF again to help keep your counts higher. This means you could possibly spend the last 16 days of summer with your sisters before they head off to school and we go back to hospital.
You are courage to me,
Love Dad
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