Checking In....

It's been quite a week....On Monday I woke up not feeling well.  I got James to school and made it back with Katie and her and I were hanging out on the 4th floor and I started to really feel bad.  By the afternoon I had full blown stomach flu complete with chills, fever, body aches and major dehydration.  Lovely.  Jay came home at 3 and insisted on calling my oncologists nurse.  Once she returned our phone call, almost two hours later, I was fairly certain I knew what she was going to say, come in to the hospital.  By this time, it was almost 6pm and James had a school play that he needed to go to.  I decided to send Jay with the kids to the play and I would find a friend to take me to the hospital.  About 15 minutes later, Jay returned with the kids, as James got sick in the car.  I finally called uncle on the situation and did what anyone does when they reach the end of their rope and don't know what to do- I called my mommy.  So, new plan.  Jay would stay home until my mom got to my house, and I would find someone to take me to the hospital.  Once my mom got there, then Jay would come to the ER to take me home.  So, that is what we did.  Thank you to my friend Haj for answering my call and taking me to the ER.  Thank you to my mom for getting to my house so quickly.  Jay got to the ER after I had been through triage and in a room, with an IV going and my port accessed.  They took lots of blood to test and gave me some compazine through my IV to make me feel better.  They took my blood pressure and heart rate.  Based on my very low blood pressure and my very high heart rate, they admitted me for severe dehydration.  About midnight I made it up to the oncology floor.  After that, things just seemed to get worse.  Every blood draw came back deficient in something. Magnesium, potassium, and finally iron.  I got about 6 bags of saline, a couple bags each of magnesium and potassium, and finally two blood transfusions to raise my iron count.  With each blood draw my white blood count kept reducing so first I was keeping my Wednesday chemo appointment, then it was moved to Friday, and finally it was cancelled.  On Thursday morning, Thanksgiving, they came in and drew my blood about 5am in prep for early rounds.  Finally, everything looked okay, and although my doctor said that if it wasn't Thanksgiving, she'd probably keep me one more day, she let me go home.  Yeah!  So, what I thought would be a few hours in the ER turned into three days in the hospital. 

Thanks to my mom who took care of James all day Tuesday, and stayed to clean and get the house in order until Wednesday afternoon.  (Luckily he didn't get too sick and is back to his normal self.)  Thank you to my mother in law who came over on Wed afternoon to watch James and Katie so Jay could get things done and come visit me at the hospital.  And a big thank you to my sister in law and brother in law who had James and Katie Wednesday night, all day Thursday and Thursday night.  I am sure they  had a super fun time with their cousins and a nice Thanksgiving with the Harris and Mitchell families. 

I am still weak and kind of achy, so I still resting and sleeping a lot.  I am hoping to be back to normal by Saturday or Sunday. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I am thankful for all the love, prayers, support and concern from my friends and family.