January 3rd - Week 36

Wednesday night, I started feeling sick at dinnertime.  At about 10PM I  threw up and felt a little better.  I hoped this sickness would pass quickly and not pass on to anyone else.

So, Bryson was planning on taking Kayla to the clinic Thursday morning, but he had to be at the courthouse for a hearing at 9AM.  Kayla's appointment was at 10:30AM, so they needed to leave by 9:45AM.  It was going to be tight.  I had made arrangements for Lily to go to a friends house, I I decided to leave those in place, even though I was staying home.

Well, at 9:45AM, I still hadn't heard anything from Bryson, so I figured I had better be prepared to take Kayla.  Nathan wanted to stay home, so I loaded Benson (still in his pj's), Sadie and Kayla in the car and we took off by 10AM.  Right when we got in the car I heard from Bryson, but he was just getting done and still at the courthouse, so we headed to the clinic.  I was feeling better by then, once my adrenaline kicked in. :)

Both Benson and Kayla did great at the clinic.  There was a little bit of juggling going on in the room when we were waiting to meet with Marnie.  Both Kayla and Benson wanted to sit right by me on the office bed-table and I was holding Sadie, too.  It's times like those when I could use a couple extra arms.  Ha ha.

Meeting with Marnie went fine.  Nothing major to talk about.   But, Kayla's counts were lower than last week.  Both her neutrophils (they were 790 and need to be at least 1000) and her platelets (I forgot, but they were under 100) are low.  Too low to do chemo - if it were the day to start a new cycle.  She is supposed to start her next cycle next week, so we really are hoping that they will come up and we don't have another long delay!

So, we left the clinic and were on our way to the parking garage when Kayla asked, "Why do I have to keep this in?"  Oops!  She was never de-accessed.  So, we went back into the clinic and found a nurse to de-access her port.  I am glad that Kayla said something before we left because otherwise, I would have had to do it while being talked through by the nurse. ;)

We made it home and back to our day of cleaning and grocery shopping.  Later that afternoon, the kids told me that someone had pulled up at our house.  Then I remembered that it was a clinic day, which meant my visiting teachers were bringing us dinner.  Thank you!!!

(Kayla, Benson, and Sadie waiting in the lobby with their dum dum suckers they got when Kayla's port was accessed)