Our last hurdle

The little one can't catch a break when it comes to fevers. After every chemo she gets a nasty fever. We've gone two nights with high fevers, reaching nearly 104 at times, chills, rapid breathing, high pulse, and low pulse-ox. It's scary. They're drawing blood cultures every 24 hours, and the first one is growing a bacteria. Gram (negative) rod is what it is called. Apparently this bacteria is in all of our stomach's. Since Katelyn has had c-diff and is neutrapeonic, it is a lot easier for this bacteria to cross the stomach barrier into the blood stream. The doctor said the fevers should start to subside soon. I hope so, it is scary watching her be so sick. Unfortunately she has to be hooked up again, and is getting antibiotics every 8 hours. I don't remember her ever being accessed with this many drugs. She's a trooper though. We are also keeping her in our room as we don't want to risk any new complications that could come from walks in the hall or visitors. Once we get through this bacteria and her counts come up, we will be done! That day can't come soon enough. We are really excited to be done! We aren't too anxious to leave the hospital yet... we want Kate to be 100% before we get excited to get back to "life".

Lots of prayers that Kate's fevers subside, please. Thank you for all the prayers for Zara! She came back Monday and tests showed only 2% blasts! Yay! Instead of going to transplant she can now continue chemo, like Katelyn did. We are all so happy, and her parents are ecstatic! Thank You again!