Monday night, 72 hours into hospital stay

Emily had a really good day. We got her fever under control again this morning and she has gone all day without it returning. She spent most of her day doing art projects. She also read an entire mystery book from the library. She doesn't want to leave her room to go to school or the playroom because she has to wear a mask, which she thinks makes her look "weird". I even offered to wear one too, and she almost went for it, but I couldn't actually get her to leave the room. She is in a great mood laughing and doing her best to pass the time. A big improvement today over previous days.

Tracy and I are doing are best juggling the hospital and taking care of Haley. Tracy is also going to work Wednesday, which will be interesting. Tracy will be working and Emily and I will be in patient rooms, we hope Tracy can make it by on her shift. Actually I hope we are at home. I may work from the hospital on Wednesday. I am lucky to have a job that can be done remotely from time to time.

Unless things take a change for the worse, it seems like we are just waiting for ANC to get over 500 for a steady period, and for the fever to be gone and to stay away without any Tylenol. By the way if you are wondering why they aren't giving mortin for fever, which would be more effective, it's a chemo thing, they don't like to thin the blood at all which aspirin and it's derivatives (ibuprofen) cause.