Bump in the Road

I wanted to make this blog be a continuous story, but our circumstances have changed a little and I will get back to the rest later. For now, Ally is back in the hospital. She scared us yesterday...no eating, no drinking, her jaw hurts too bad from the chemo (a side effect). She laid lethargic all day. I don't even think she was focusing on much. We started to panic a little last night, but then got a very small amount of food into her and put her in bed. This morning, she woke up about 9:15. She came downstairs and said her belly hurt. She went into the bathroom and Jerad was in the kitchen. Next thing we knew she had passed out and was laying between the toilet and the wall. She came to pretty quickly after Jerad picked her up, but she could barely open her eyes and wasn't talking too much. Jerad carried her to the car and took her right back to the hospital. My wonderful friends took Carly and Evan and I was there shortly thereafter. Did you know you can get from our house to Children's in 14 minutes? Its true.

They started her on fluids right away...within minutes of getting there. They think she was dehydrated. The also think her blood counts are off...it is called "bottoming out" and it usually happens on day 7-10 after chemo. Today was day 6 for us. Because she was slightly dehydrated, her blood results were a little concentrated, so they are checking them again here at about 4pm. They also ran some blood cultures on her to make sure that she did not develop an infection. We are waiting those results. She does not have a fever, which is good.

Ally was admitted...they said a few days. Honestly, she was scaring us so much that I am more comfortable with her being there. She already perked up some today after the IV fluids. We even got her to drink an icee and eat half a soft taco. And my Dad had to load her tray up with candy too. Maybe she will eat a little of that. Any food is better than no food.

She was due into the hospital tomorrow morning for her next round of treatment anyway. Right now, they are still planning on doing another bone marrow biopsy, a spinal tap, and also two different chemos. I have been dreading Friday all week because I knew it was coming.

I will continue on later to explain everything because I know I am jumping around. I just wanted everybody to know that we are back at Dayton Childrens.