Sunday Prayer Request

Julia continued to run a fever all day Saturday.  She was lethargic, but eating and content.  We put her to bed and she woke up crying at 1:00am with a croupy cough and stridor.  I watched her for about an hour with no improvement.  We called the oncologist and they wanted her seen and admitted.  Unfortunately on the weekends that means through the ER.

We got to the hospital around 3:00am with all our luggage in tow.  They took us right back and got started.  Unfortunately ports aren't the norm like they are up here, so the nurse was asking a lot of questions- like what size access needle to use, how to tape it, etc.- not very reassuring.  She did well and Julia is a great patient.  They brought in a team to hold her and we just kind of looked at them.  She doesn't need any of that.  They drew her labs and blood cultures, flushed her line, started fluids, and swabbed her for seasonal and H1N1 flu.


Then we went back for a chest x-ray, by far the worst part.  I hate that they have to strap them to a board like that with their arms above their heads and face covered.  She recovered fine and they gave her Tamiflu and tylenol when we got back in the room.  At 6:00am they brought us up to the 9th floor to a room.  Nurse Jo was here to greet us.  It is so nice to see familiar faces.  We haven't seen her since surgery back in April.  She was so excited to hear we finished chemo and was absolutely wonderful with Julia. 

 We are still waiting for her counts to come in to find out if she is neutropenic.  That will determine which antibiotic they start.  So now, hopefully we can go to bed and get some rest.  

Please pray for healing from whatever bug she has and rest while we're here.  Pray for safety in treatment and protection from hospital germs.  It was really hard seeing her sick tonight.  It is scary enough when your child is sick, but when you know they don't have much of an immune system it's even more scary.  Please pray for Carter and Daddy at home.  The hospital is still locked down to children, so he won't be able to visit.  The doctors don't have any idea at this point how long we will be here.