Another ER visit

Saturday night we added another ER trip to Brian's journey through chemo. Fred and I both commented on how amazed we are that we were able to go the first two years with absolutely no ER visits or hospital stays, to now monthly ER trips with extended hospital stays. (Thankfully no hospital stay this month!)
  Anyway, Brian was running a fever of 101.8, 101.6 so we had to call in. The on-call oncologist told us to head to the ER for blood cultures and antibiotics.
     We are so grateful that one our friends from CC moved right around the corner in our neighborhood last October. It has been fun to go on walks and play at the parks. This past Saturday when we had to head to the ER it was such a blessing to call them and drop the kids off. I believe it was a 17 second detour.  :-) Thank you Morgan family for taking care of our kiddos.

   Once we were in the ER our nurse asked us what kinda port Brian had. When we told her the brand and type of port (I have a card and booklet I carry in my purse) she looked perplexed. Things kinda went down hill from there. Somehow Brian's tubes of blood for the lab got lost. We couldn't just draw new labs because by that point he had antibiotics in his system. The nurse assured us they would find it and it would all be OK. Fred and I kinda strained a smile.

Brian enjoyed a red Popsicle and of course the ipad.

 
  Eventually they did find the blood and said that Brian's ANC was at 700. (500 and below is neutropenic and requires a hospital stay). Brian was released and we JOYFULLY went home.

Today Brian is feeling fantastic. He and William are playing ninjas (with blue painters tape on their faces?!?!).  His counts are low, so we are staying at the house, avoiding germs. Just because Brian's counts are low doesn't mean that he feels bad, but that his body is unable to fight an infection.  Exposure to an infection could cause Brian's counts to lower even more and require a hospital stay. So, we are keeping it at the house this week.  :-)