January 8th - Not Quite Week 37

Last night, I was starting to feel the stress of packing up for another long day at the clinic.  Needing to pack food, activities, packing for Sadie, on top of being tired from a long day already.  Plus it snowed all day and the roads were icy and terrible.  We would have to leave as soon as we could once Nathan and Lily were on the bus.  Plus my babysitter for Benson fell through and I needed to find another one.  Sigh.

Bryson had two court hearings that were canceled, so he offered to come with us.  That would be nice.  Later last night, he had a brilliant idea - he could take Kayla and I could stay home.  After thinking about that  for about 10 minutes, I felt the stress lift off of my shoulders.  Yes!  Great idea!  I wouldn't have to pack up a zillion things and lug Sadie (I will tell you how much she weighs after her appointment with the doctor tomorrow. . . but it's got to be a lot!) around, drive on icy roads, etc.  Plus, I would get to stay home with just Benson and Sadie and possibly have a nice slow day.  At least as relaxing as possible with a busy two year old boy. ;)

Anyway, I was very grateful that Bryson offered to take Kayla, even though he is super busy with work right now.  What a great guy!!

So, the drive went well (he tells me. . . ) and things went well at the clinic.  They met with Marnie.  Kayla's neutrophil count was up over 2000.  Yay!  But, her platelets were at 80.  Boo.  This was supposed to be the start of a new 6 week cycle, so her platelets need to be at least 100.   So, she just barely missed counts.  That's one more week delay.  On the bright side, though, there will be no battle with zofran this week!  Kayla did get Pentamadine, though, so that was nice.  It takes an hour and when you add an hour on to an already long day, it gets longer. . . so, that is done for another month.

Hopefully by next week her counts will be up.  Although, looking at my calendar, we may have other issues. Next Tuesday, Kayla is scheduled for chemo and next Wednesday she is scheduled to have her next MRI.  The problem comes when she needs to take zofran, but can't eat or drink anything before the MRI.  We'll see how that works out next week. . .