ReachOutGiving

Hello friends and family, hope you all are doing well and let me start by saying THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone that has helped my family in any way; be it food, transportation, childcare or a visit, you are GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Now onto what's going on with me...last night during my doctors rounds he told me he felt confident that tomorrow (this morning, Friday) would be the "magic" day...my numbers would be up and I'd go home. Mommy tried not to get too excited but she sure was hopeful. Well, at around 7am this morning, my nurse told my mommy that I was running a fever, 38.1 and had been for an hour, FYI, that's AUTOMATICALLY an additional 48 hour stay and more blood cultures, mommy was not happy. BUT, on the bright side, it's much better for the fever to have happened here than once we got home, so for that, my mom was thankful...oh, and not to mention that my ANC count was still 20, the EXACT same as it was yesterday even though I have been on the hormone to help raise my counts for 2 days...it seems we are chasing our tail.

So today I really didn't feel well, I laid around and slept in the bed until almost 2:00 and didn't really feel like eating or drinking, my mommy said I had flushed cheeks and just looked like I didn't feel well...I know this has been super hard on her :( Around 3:30 I had some visitors, Jodie & Don who were our Lighthouse host family and I brightened up immediately, they brought me memory cards to play with, a cute christmas pet and some playdough as well as some gifts for Karli, it was a nice visit. I also had a great visit yesterday from Pastor Roger from our church as well as our friend Robin LaGrow and her friend....it sure makes my day when people go out of their way to come see me! I even enjoyed a visit from my friend Jaydn this week along with his mom Leigh and her mom Pat and they brought me a super duper cool pet, he even showed me his awesome cartwheels...I sure hope I can move like that one day :)

After Jodie and Don left, I was tired again and wanted mommy to lay down with me and watch Finding Nemo (shocker), I was asleep almost immediately. My doctor did come by this afternoon and said he was changing my antibiotic and ordering an additional culture to tests for other infections that might be going on in my body, something is just not right. He did say that if I go all night without a fever (highly unlikely because it is creeping up at this moment) and my ANC rose to 200 by in the morning I could go home...well, if you've been following my counts these last 10 days this is about as likely as pigs flying over Scottish Rite tonight, but miracles do happen so I guess it could be possible....I ask you all to send God a "knee-mail" and ask for healing, me and mommy so need to be home with our family.

My daddy and Karli Rae are coming up tonight to stay the evening, I am looking forward to seeing them, maybe they can do the "no fever, high count" dance and help me get discharged tomorrow, we shall see.

Until then, please keep my other friends in your prayers, my friend Abby who is going through the same ANC roller coaster as me as well as little Millie who is in for chemo, Lindsay who is recovering from her transplant, Danielle that is in maintenance and hoping to continue problem free and for small Piper to get answers soon as well as any other of my friends I might have missed, you are all prayed for daily and I hope God will embrace you and your family and heal, heal, heal.

As always, thanks for checking in and for the continued thoughts and prayers, they are always appreciated. I will check in tomorrow and let you know how things are going!

With love,

Ketren