H1N1

Last night Emily started to get a fever around 11pm. Earlier in the day we could hear a new virus starting. It's really discouraging when you fight to keep her away from virus, and then she still gets one. Her fever went from 100.9, then up to 101.5. Anything over 101.2 and we need to go right to the ER to have her ANC checked. Emily spent the night in the ER while they ran tests, blood, urine, nose swab for H1N1. She has all the signs of H1N1 flu and the doctors said we will need to wait for conclusive results, but more than likely she has H1N1. The GREAT news is her ANC is 2400 so she was not neutropenic so she gets to fight this flu at home, rather than having to be in an isolation room at the hospital. She was also given Tamiflu because they are that certain this is probably H1N1 virus. She threw up her first dose so we need to give her another one later this morning.

It was amazing how calm and or numb Tracy and I are to all this. Last night when Tracy first discovered the fever she came and woke me to tell me. I was concerned of course, but I actuallly dosed back off to sleep, knowing we needed to wait for the fever to be there an hour. A year ago, I would have been freaking out, jumping to 100's of conclusions about what was going to happen to Emily, and this time, I thought to myself, let's just wait and see, she's doing so great, she's going to be fine. Now that she most likely has H1N1, I am still not too worried. Tracy and I are both a little nervous but confident Emily will fight through this like a champ. Emily was also very calm and matter of fact about having to go in to the ER. We all know the drill by now.

When we were in the ER we ran into Dr. DeSouza, who was the attending physician WAY back on March 9th 2008, and was the person who diagnosed Emily originally. He still remembers us and the day as well. He said, "next time we run into each other, let's hope it's Stanford Shopping Center".

More updates as this virus progresses.