48 hours

Wednesday morning Livi woke up with a sore in her mouth and a sore on her bottom. Since the mouth sores are a side effect of the Methotrexate she has been getting up at clinic I didnt think anything else of it. But the bum sore puzzled me so I called clinic. The nurse told me not to worry that it was probably nothing and just to watch it for infection and for a fever. As the day went on Livi just kept keeping more and more irritable and not wanting to do anything or eat at all. Thursday morning she woke up with even more mouth sores and not wanting to eat or drink anything and wanted to do nothing but lay on the couch and yell at everyone....

Thursday night around 6 Livi started getting a little fever, it didnt last long at all in fact I checked it again in an hour and it was 98.6. I kept checking it all night long and it just kept going up and down but never staying consistant for longer than an hour. Friday morning I called clinic and they told me to just bring her in so they could look at her. So off the Primary Childrens we went. When we got up there her primary Doc was there, Dr. Sprayker. They accessed her port and took a CBC and while we were waiting for those results the doctor came in to do an examination. Livi stuck her tongue out for the Dr to look in her mouth and there it was.....THRUSH!! I cant believe I'd missed it! Then they looked at her bottom and said that the sore was actually a fungal infection that was most likely caused from the mouth sores. (When they get mouth sores it is mostly all the way down their throat, through their intestines and sometimes out through their bottoms.) So the mouth sores has caused quite a problem. Dr. Sprayker said they were most likely going to admit her it just depended on what her counts were. She went to go look at them and quickly came back and told us her counts were not good. Her ANC was 400, her white blood count was 2.3 (Low) and her Hct was 25.8 (low). We were being admitted.

We went over and got all hooked up and got some fluids in her (the girl was totally dehydrated) and right then and there she was a different person. We had some awesome visitors that night who brought dinner and yummy treats (Thank you so much Amanda and Chelsea! You guys rock) and we were ready to be there for at least 48 hours. The next morning Dr. Lemons came in and told us her ANC had actually dropped but her white count was going up which was a good thing but he wanted to give her a little extra boost by giving her a shot called a GCSF. It was amazing and did its job! Sunday morning her ANC had jumped up to 1400!! So we got sent home at noon with 5 new persciptions to fill and a happy little girl! Thanks to all those who came up and visited (Thanks Jessi for all the fun stuff to do!) and who held my house together while I was gone. So after a clinic visit, an admission, a fever, an infection, a shot, a breakdown, we are home! WHAT A WEEKEND!!!!