Round 2 Complete!

Chelsea finished round two this morning with a shot in the leg. She cried of course, but I was holding her closely when they administered the shot. I was kissing her and singing to her. Next thing I knew I felt a little tongue in my mouth. Yes, I think I frenched my daughter, that's just wrong. Even amidst the drama of nurses injecting chemo into her thigh she's still crazy with the tongue!

She snapped out of it quickly though as always and has been running around like always! We had to "re-loop" her twice today. That's how we know it was an active day. A 'loop' is something we do to her Hickman so that if she gets away from us while attached to the pole or if she pulls on her Hickman, the loop will be pulled out before the actual port will be pulled from her chest.

She did get a blood transfusion today, it was down to 7.4 this morning. She wasn't acting sluggish at all though, we were surprised she was so low. Her platelets were down to 47 so she bruised a little bit after the shot. She'll need platelets sometime this week inevitably. They didn't give her any benedryl today, so by the evening she was looking a little red, so I requested some in an attempt to bypass the rash this round. She fought sleep a little bit tonight, but is now sound asleep, whew! She did throw up yesterday afternoon twice and once this evening, but each time, it's quick, always when my head is turned, and she just keeps on playing. Not once have I actually heard it happen, and she doesn't act startled like most children do, she just seems oblivious to the fact and if she happens to see it before I can get it cleaned up, she likes to stick her hands in it! She's soooo goofy.

She didn't drink a whole lot today, but ate well. Then tonight in an attempt to catch her up and get her unhooked from the fluids, I got her to drink a lot with dinner, but she hardly ate anything. No fever, really it's been uneventful. Oh wait...a few loose diapers, one of which was the exciting up the back all over my onesie sort. Of course she did that one right at shift change too, so here it's 7:30 and I'm frantically asking the nurses for press n' seal, towels etc. And oh by the way, can you take this dirty diaper? (yep, they weigh every single diaper!) God bless our nurses and care assistants for putting up with us! We're thinking the poops are just a side effect of the chemo. If it lasts a couple of days they may do a culture, but let's cross our fingers they go away soon!

Logan called this afternoon. He said he missed me (awwww....) We talked a bit about what he did at Grandma's and I told him Daddy would come home to get him tonight. Then all of a sudden he says, "hold on mommy." "I have to go poop." I started cracking up and Grandpa got on the phone and told me I didn't have to "hold on" that long! My theory is he got all relaxed talking to mommy and decided it was time....like....right now!!!

Okay, enough for tonight. I apologize for so much talk about poop. I guess you can't avoid it when you're talking about kids!

Carey