Jessie has been NPO since midnight. Her ultra sound was supposed to be around 8 am, but of course didn't happen until 10:30am. She almost fainted in the bathroom this morning before I got there. She pulled that red cord after lowering herself to the floor. Thank goodness she knows what it feels like to be faint and got herself to a safe position. She was getting an ultra sound because she has been having abdominal pain. I think they were checking for bleeding. Everything checked out OK. We had a nice chat with the ultra sound technician, Kathy. She has a different type of Leukemia, not curable, but she can go into remission. Kathy and I decided that all the medicines that Jessie has been taking orally (ATRA, antibiotics, anti-fungal, zofran, xanax, etc....) have caused her intestinal tract rebellion. Her clotting factors have all returned to normal so it seems that the bleeding risk is greatly reduced. However, her hemoglobin has been hovering around 7.5 for six days now so they have decided to give her blood today. It will make her feel better and hopefully last until her body builds itself back up.
Every time she eats, her stomach hurts, but she tries to eat a little something before each set of pills she has to take. Before two weeks ago, she was NOT a good pill swallower. Now she's a champ.
She is down the hallway now with Colin in the playroom petting dogs! Everyone was invited on the unit. The dogs and handlers come every couple of weeks with special dogs (apparently the dogs needs to lie around a lot and like to be pet). Hey, I have a dog like that! At least she's up out of bed and enjoying herself! :-)
Hang in there champ! We love you!
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