Oh What A Night!

Yesterday started like a normal Thursday. The kids off to school and me to the gym with Clara. We then went to a friend's house for lunch and got to see our sweet neighbors who are currently living in Uganda and that was very fun! Cora had chemo on Tuesday. Her counts were sky high and she is taking steroids, so she was acting what we call "weepy." Which to me just means wacky and sleepy from her chocolate medicine. She was also complaining of leg pain which is also a normal side effect of vincristine, but one she hasn't had for a few months. She and Cade have both been coughing some which I was attributing to the massive amounts of pollen accumulating all over the entire city! I had touched both Cade and Cora's heads like 1000 times that day because I always do that when they're runny nosed or coughing just because I'm a little crazy. Cora took a nap on the couch and woke up and cried for me to carry her to the bathroom because he legs hurt and she couldn't walk. I went over to pick her up and she was burning hot. I took her temp and it was 102 axillary. I always debate who to call peditrician or oncologist. Usually for normal flu or symptoms I go with the peditrician, but since she'd had chemo on Tuesday and I thought some of this may be medication related I went with the oncologist. A few kids around have had strep and I thought she may be getting it. The nurse said that the doctor had just left, but she'd call the on call doc. She did and told me to bring her to the ER right now. Of course this totally freaked me out because I was thinking, "they know something I don't know." Everything ran through my head from a terrible reaction to the chemo, failing kidneys from too much treatment, to relapse. Why am I so crazy? So I loaded the troops up, called daddy to meet us, and headed to the ER. Poor Cora felt awful, looked awful, and was so nervous and scared. Long story short...(well shorter) were were there for 4 hours, they checked everything and did a chest x-ray to find a tiny spot on her lung that looked like the beginnings of pneumonia. They also did a mono test and a few cultures that we won't know the results of until later. They gave her a dose of rocephin through her port along with an antibiotic to ensure to control this pneumonia thing. She ran fever all night but it seems to be ok this morning. We are hoping it's just a virus. I'm supposed to call clinic this morning to follow up with the oncologist. The good news is that her counts are high. I'm a little worried because at the beginning of treatment they explained to us that she will take Bactrim each weekend to prevent a specific type of pneumonia because that can be very dangerous to kids on chemo. So pneumonia freaks me out, but hopefully we caught it early and I'm all over it. I'm sure I'll call the doctor another 20 times before it's all said and done. So that's our crazy day that started out so normally. Please say a little prayer for our sweet girl. We'll keep you posted. Thanks to my sweet friends who are continually picking up my slack and putting up with my drama!