More Prayers Needed!

Bree’s last chemo treatment went well. We were able to get in and out in one day. I promised her doctor I would bring him cookies if he could get us in and out in a day and he delievered, so Dr. Williams, your cookies are coming! :) We got there by 9am and as tradition goes, waited several hours for the chemo to arrive. By 2pm we were able to start her pre-drugs. She receives 3 drugs for nausea before the chemo enters her body. Then she received carboplatin, cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin. After the chemo was done she needed to have 3 hours of hydration via IV to make sure her kidneys were functioning okay. So, by about 8:15pm she was done! Yea! It surely was one L-O-N-G day! But, I am grateful it is over and that we didn’t have to stay any longer at the hospital.

I was also very grateful to go home because I wasnt feeling well that night. I started to get some kind of nasty flu bug...a complete package of chills, body aches, cough and lots of mucuous on the side! Gross, sorry! After a few days rest I'm starting to feel better, however, our little Breezy has seemed to come down with the same thing. Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30am to check on her and discovered that she had a fever. It was low grade (99.8) but by about 6am it was at 101.3 so we called the doctor. He sent us to the ER where they did a chest x-ray, urine sample, and blood work. Turns out she had a bad ear infection in her left ear but her counts are very high (ANC is 6900 which is really high for her) so that is a good thing. Another blessing is that her chest x-rays came back fine too. No pneumonia or RSV. Phew! So, they gave her a powerful antibiotic for the ear infection (rosephen) and let us go home by about 10:30am.

She was doing well yesterday and her fever seemed to be going away. Well, today she woke up at 5am and seemed very gaggy so I tried giving her adivan by mouth and that triggered her to vomit everywhere. She has been throwing up/gagging a lot today due to her either having nausea or getting the sickness that I have had. I think that's the reason why Bree has been so gaggy and throwing up. Too much mucuous! Along with her feeding tube down her throat, that probably aggravates her also, willing her body to throw up. Also, her fever seems to be coming back too. I'm very worried.

Anyway, what I am asking is if you would keep her in your prayers? Say a few extra for her? I am worried that if this cold gets worse for her she will end up in the hospital and possibly get pneumonia because her counts are supposed to drop any day now. When she drops, she is so suseptible to viruses and sickness in general that it could really be dangerous if she is already pretty sick when she does drop. I hope that made sense. The good side is that her counts were so high yesterday that our hope is that when she does drop, that she'll have a little bit of a cushion. But, the trend has been one day she is high, the next day she can be super low, especially if her immune system is fighting an infection. She might not have enough in her little body to fight it off.

I know Heavenly Father hears the prayers of the righteous and so I just wanted to extend the invitation to pray with us, ask that Breezy be okay and that her body will be able to fight off what she is sick with now. I know the more prayers the better!! I'll post pictures of our last round of chemo later but for now, I've gotta get my baby all better!