Mar 7 - Day 32/30 - That Pesky ANC

Sooooooooooooo, did I fail to mention yesterday that her ANC (the number that tells us how much protection she has against infection) dropped from 1450 to 341. Mistake, right? Nurse didn't draw off 10 ccs first. Maybe the lab goofed. It happens. We thought it was a mistake too. So they drew more blood and retested in the afternoon. Nope. It was correct. This morning it had dropped to 210. I was still holding on to some small fantasy that they were going to consider letting her come home today. Nope. I was wrong. Combined with the fact that she had a fever on Sunday and a dropping count, they want to wait until her counts start rising before they let her go. They said she needs at least a 250 to come home tomorrow and no fever of course. 
We think she caught a virus in the 48 hours she was at home. Maybe it was my fault taking her to CVS after the doctor visit to get that one last prescription? Maybe it was the handles on the Dr. Scholl foot assessment machine where she got a virus? I woke up at 5 am and started thinking of all the different places she could have gotten it. I decided I need to put her in a bubble. We'll call her Bubba or bubble girl.
So there she sits at Children's hospital procrastinating like usual with her homework assignments (some things haven't changed :-)) looking like a bald million dollar bucks, but still she sits. She is exercising her legs and walking and stretching and showering and brushing. One good thing: her platelets are going up so we had a platelet party with a $2.99 ice cream bar from the "cafe" on the 7th floor.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll have an ANC party....