Yesterday Jesse and I made the trip to CHKD to check her levels and start her testing for the high dose chemo/ stem cell transplant.
I knew she needed platelets because she was bruising really easily… and where the doctors inserted the pic line for her stem cell harvest bruise reappeared.
Her platelets were 6! But her ANC was 10,000. Yeah she gets a neupogen shot break! I love those. I really don’t enjoy giving her that shot. I know it’s extremely important, but there is no easy way to explain to a 2 year old that it is vitial.
Our first stop of the morning was radiology/ nuke med to begin the GFR Kidney Function test. They were not able to insert the nuclear medicine in her CVL because it would skew the results of the test when they drew blood from that site.
So they had to poke her. I asked them not to dig ( I think that makes things worse). The nurse attempted on her hand, but it was a no go. I thought it would be considering she had very little platelets… When this didn’t work, they used her elbow crook. Then the medicine was injected. Removed this line, and began the waiting process. To complete the tests, they needed 3 blood draws 2 hours after the injection, 3 hours after injection, and 4 hours after injection.
While we waited Jesse played in clinic, threw up once, and got platelets.
After the GFR was completed, we went to Cardiology for her EEG/EKG. She actually fell asleep!
Friday we head back for the doctors to get bone marrow. Praying that goes well. At least they are going to sedate her.
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Tomorrow , March 17 2011, join us at La Tolteca to support Team Iversen for St Baldrick’s. La Tolteca will donate part of the money you pay for dinner to St Baldrick’s. This will happen all day at both locations.
Please help make this event a huge success towards conquering childhood cancer!