I just got home from the ER and it's late, but I wanted to update, so this will be short and sweet b/c I am quite tired. Her fever went up and stayed up for a couple hours, so the onc wanted us to bring her in to check her blood. I told the doctor that the cough started right after the sedation for the LP today, and that she had thrown up during the procedure. She had absolutely no symptoms before that, and from the moment she woke up, she was hacking up all kinds of gunk. He wanted to x-ray her lungs to make sure none of the fluid got in there when she threw up, and they saw a spot on pnemonia in her lungs. So they are concerned, but our onc (he's the best) let us come home to sleep and we will follow up tomorrow and see what they want to do. I couldn't believe it because it came on so sudden today, but the ER doc said that this type of pnemonia is symptom free until it shows up suddenly, and one of the signs is a very high white blood count. That is in a normal kid, so chemo kids are different because their counts are so wacky, but her WB count did go up a lot. In fact, her ANC is now 5000, this morning it was 2100. So I am nervous, but I think they will get it under control easily. We'll know more tomorrow. Please pray that it will go away quickly.

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for the update. The prayers for you are of comfort for all... Love & tons of get better hugs soon to all the girls. Love you so much.....
Aunt Nancy