Sat, 04 Feb 2006

Nate's in the Big House
Well, we didn't make it. I was hoping we'd make it through the entire treatment without requiring a hospital stay for F&N (Fever & Neutropenia). Well, Thursday morning we got a phone call from Lynn saying that Nate's labs were back and that he was neutropenic. I had already dropped him off at school so he could go on a field trip to the planetarium. Well, as luck would have it, Thurs. afternoon he started running a fever. That's an automatic trip to the hospital for more labwork. And, he was still neutropenic, so he was admitted to start immediate IV antibiotics. He's in room 2331 (2 North, the oncology ward) at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Medical Center. He's got a nice single isolation room, since he tested positive for RSV. Sounds like he's going to be there until tomorrow, at least. We're watching his neutrophil count, but it's not coming up too fast.

Christa and I are taking turns at the hospital (one night each, so far), and we did the switch yesterday in the parking lot. Andrew is sick (he's been running a fever and coughing like mad), probably with the same RSV that Nate has. He's been coughing lots and waking up, too. Becca is still a little sniffly, so maybe they all have the same crud. Who knows.

Some of our very nice friends from Nate's school are letting him borrow Game Boy games, etc. It's hard passing all that time in the hospital.

Take care, I'll update when I can. The silly hospital still doesn't have internet access for us, beyond a single public-access computer!

- Greg
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