Clinic Visit March 2011

This last month has been pretty rough for Livi, for all of us really. We ended up in the ER two weekends in a row because of fevers, one of them was right after the Mrs Utah pageant :( But each time she was sent home after getting IV antibiotics. I was very surprised she wasn't admitted the second time because when we had had her counts done just the day before they were only 300, so here we go, we know the drill, so I drove clear up to Primaries instead of just going to a closer hospital which is just what I have been doing lately and we get up there and that little stinkers ANC had jumped clear to 2400!! What a silly girl, I was so happy though that we weren't spending the night.

Clinic was the same as usual, she was just getting Vincristine through her port so it was a relatively short visit. We checked in, Livi got to make a cute little craft and we were called back.

CLINIC STATS:

Height: 170.2 (Growing so fast!)

Weight: 19.2

We went back to our room and met with the nurse practitioner and then our oncologist, Dr. Sprayker, who we absolutely love! Livi is so funny, she is NEVER shy but when we get to clinic she doesn't like to talk to anyone...go figure, I wouldn't want to talk to the people who were sticking me with needles either. But afterwards she talks and talks about everyone. She always says "Mom I really like my oncororgost, she is so nice and she makes me all better!" Isn't that the sweetest thing?!

The drive home was a different story, she got sick of course, as always but this time in my car! I need to follow other moms instruction and keep a "barf kit" in my car....I had one at one point but she get so sick so often that I ran out of those nifty little blue throw up bags that they have at the hospital. She was not a happy camper at all. She fell asleep before we got home though so thats good. We went and got Ryker from our lovely babysitter Aunt Jessi and headed home to finish out our month, and our week with STEROIDS.

Yes the horrible steriods once again. Livi will be on steroids for a week a month for the next 2 years. I really dont know if I can handle that...especially with Rykers new diagnosis I read that some of the treatments for seizures is steroids. K I dont know who thinks this is funny but having 2 kids on steroids with no husband around....Im going to need an army to help control my kids.

This week Livi binged on chicken nuggets and corndogs and fruit snacks. Im not kidding when I say this girl could seriously eat us out of house and home. She went through and entire bag of chicken nuggets by herself in ONE DAY. No joke, then when I ask her how many corndogs she wants she says "Umm, I just want like 4." Yeah, 4 corndogs for breakfast, not the small ones either, Im talking regular sized corndogs. We have decided her and my brother Justin are going to have an eating contest the next time she is on....She will seriously probably win!!

I just want to give a special thanks to all the people who are praying for our family. I can feel such a difference in our home the last few days. I feel like everything is going to be okay no matter what life throws at us. So thank you again for being so wonderful to think of us. We love you all!