Sunday update

Oh the drama today has brought thus far! It started out this morning about much concern over her labs. Long story short, it looked as if she needed a blood transfusion. Question of the accuracy of the labs was brought up, so a new set was drawn (like the 4th? poke in 2 days, not including the IV) and came back more like Shelby's "normal." Phew!

Then she was moving around in bed and cried out that her IV hurt. When she was hooked up again for her meds, she cried that it hurt and the IV site started to swell. That IV was a goner. But, because her white blood cell count is so low, fevers can not show up even when there is an infection. So, the IV was removed, but a new one had to be put in to continue the meds so she gets 48 full hours of medication while we wait on the cultures. Sigh. What an ordeal! Her veins are starting to show some wear-and-tear from being poked so many times over the years. Finally, the second site they tried worked and the meds are running again.Riley is here for the afternoon and I thought it would be helpful - as in she plays with her sister and I do some work. WRONG! She's as high-maintenance as Shelby today! I just ate some lunch (its 3 p.m.) and think I have them settled enough to attempt some work after this update.

Shelby is in here until her ANC (germ-fighting off ability) is stable or heading back up. Right now its in the 400-range = not good. She's on neutropenic precautions (again) and is having the oh-so-not-fun IV antibiotic diarrhea. If you saw her, though, you'd never guess.

Gotta go work!