We're Back........

Sleeping in my own bed again was great, in fact I slept so well that when Zen tried waking me at 6am, it took a minute for me to realize where I was! Why was he waking me so early? Sarah had a fever of 104.3, here we go again....... Called the hospital and doctor, they wanted to check her out, so off we went back to RWJ. Entering through emergency was not nearly as bad as we imagined. They checked us right in, put us in a sanitary room, accessed her port with ease, and did blood work and a chest x-ray in a very short amount of time. The ER doctor came in, followed shortly by oncology. Before we knew it we were back on the 4th floor in the BMTU; the good news is that the preliminary blood work was all good, Sarah's counts are sill going up, in fact her white blood count jumped from 6.9 to 16.8!! The infectious disease doctors came in and said all looked good, her fever went down below 100 and stayed down. The bad news, unfortunately once you go to the hospital, they want to watch you over night and wait for the 24 hour blood culture results. Since my back is still in knots, Sarah agreed to have Zen stay with her tonight, so Greg came to pick me up and bring Zen a few things from home. Greg and I headed home, with a quick stop to do some birthday shopping, and then out to dinner with the Scannella's, which was a nice treat since I really did not want to cook. Zen and Sarah napped, ordered pizza, and settled in for what hopefully be a one night hospital stay. Meanwhile, my dad is still in the hospital, so I am waiting to hear what is going on there. So, off to bed with high hopes that Monday will bring only good news. Maria