Hospital Visit

Well, we knew we couldn't keep the bubble girl well forever, and here we are back in the PSU. She has had extremely low blood counts that aren't quickly recovering despite the break from chemo. She has thrown up a couple of times the past few days and had a runny nose and cold symptoms. Today she got a fever and it reached the magic number of 101, so we were admitted to the hospital. Her ANC has once again dropped to 220 (it was 340 on Monday). So...this is a waiting game. They did a blood culture to check for a bacterial infection (it takes 36 hours to get results.) If it isn't bacterial, which the doctor doesn't suspect, that means it is probably viral and that is probably what is keeping the counts down. We don't know exactly what action that will entail. Tomorrow they will test her for RSV and just watch her counts. Since we have been at the hospital, she hasn't run anymore fever and is playing and acting like she feels fine. Hopefully, the counts will start to come up on their own. Please pray for a quick raise in counts! The sooner we can get out of here the better. We will update tomorrow.