I'm doing a quick update from the Ronald McDonald room in the hospital with Katie on my lap because I just checked to see if Amy had updated the blog and found she had not.
Amy went home last night to get ready for the first day of school. Katie and I are still at Fletcher Allen and we are going to continue to be here for at least a couple more days. Her hemoglobin is up a few points to 10.4 but her platelets have dropped down to 15 and her ANC is 20. One positive sign is that her neutrophils are up from 0% to 6% and that typically means that cell counts are about to start climbing.
Katie spent most of the day today feeling kind of blah. I think she was a little sick to her stomach. She never vomited, but after several hours of blah I asked for her to get some Zofran and five minutes later she was ready to eat and ready to play. It made a big difference.
Because Katie isn't running any fevers and has no sign of illness, the doctors might let us out of the hospital sooner than expected, but they also said that at such low levels, they can't let Katie get as far away as home. They might be willing to let us stay with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Art for a few days instead. We would still be stuck in Burlington, but at least we wouldn't be in the hospital anymore. Anyway, that was one option mentioned this morning, but it hasn't been mentioned since so I'll just wait and see if it really happens.
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