Unplanned Visit to the Clinic.

Mimi woke up this morning a bit off, she had back and chest pain, or in her words: "where my boobs are it hurts inside like a needle." No fever but her temp was in the high 99s. She desperately wanted to go to school so up the hill we all went. She was fine until 10:15 right around the same time I was on my way to work... I got a call from the school nurse that her temp was up and she was asking to go home. I picked her up and shortly after we went to clinic. No fever, lungs sound clear, and the mysterious chest pain gone. So we continued with our regularly scheduled afternoon.

Tonight the library was hosting a Stuffed Animal Fashion Show good thing I saw that on the fridge and we made it to the library just in time. Iza took Angelina, Mimi picked Sparkles, and Magi grabbed Tweety. Everyone went up and talked about their animal and did an obstacle course. All the stuffed animals won a trophy and their owners got to pick candy thankfully they were advised to save it for tomorrow!

It's Tuesday and we are HOME.

This morning Miss Mimi pulled her needle out at some point between 5 and 6am, the nurse came in to give her her antibiotic (IV through her port) when she checked her port site she did not see the needle. She woke me up and asked if someone came in to de-access her, I did not hear anyone and Mimi was sleeping soundly right next to me. We looked all around and found the needle near her sleeve! She somehow pulled it out in her sleep. So 6:30 am we had to wake Sleeping Beauty up to re-access her, she was not overly thrilled about being woken up (but fine with getting a 3/4 inch needle LOL) thank goodness for the prize bucket!

Mimi looked good and her cutures were all still negative so we got the okay to go home before lunch, of course it takes a while to discharge so we did not leave until a bit after noon.

We left with a script for Benadryl due to the allergic reaction Mimi got to the tegaderm adhesive. Her chest looks awful, red and blistery, she is also complaining of it being itchy. The nurses did find tape today that will (hopefully) work for her and gave me an extra on incase we go somewhere and there is none avaiable.

Her counts looked good on Sunday but dropped significantly today, her Onc. gave her the okay to go home today since she is due at the clinic on Friday anyway. I am hoping for a UNeventful and ThankFUL Thanksgiving at HOME.

Counts - 11/22 - 11/24
WBC - 6.1 - 4.1
Hgb - 11.2 - 12.1
Platelets - 192 - 158
Neutrophil - 3500 - 1300

Night-Night with Sparkles at the hospital.


Drinking her tea and watching TV, I love the new yellow walls in the children's hospital rooms.