Wed, 24 May 2006

Wow... 2 months.
It's 2 months since my last entry. Why so long? Maybe because we're busy. Maybe because I'm lazy. Maybe both.

What did the last 2 months bring? A trip to Illinois to see Grandma B, Grandpa Neal, Uncle Larry, and all of Christa's relatives. Trip went well, had a great time, stayed at Grandma's house, she just loved Becca (who was quite the charmer). I've got a ton of pics, need to post them.

How are the kids you ask? Well, Nate broke out with hand/foot/mouth disease (the coxsackie virus) on May 12th, so he stayed home from school. Luckily he didn't have a fever. Christa went to her mom's on the 13th for Mother's Day, stayed over and came home Sunday the 14th. We were supposed to go to Courageous Kids Day at Great America for a fun day for cancer kids, but since Nate had newly broken out, we didn't want to expose any other cancer kids. Sunday night Christa started running a fever with a sore throat. A couple days later Andrew started a fever and sore throat. A few days later Becca started running a fever. And, unfortunately, Sunday the 21st Nate started running a fever.

Of course, Nate's fever meant an ER trip, so off to Stanford we headed. His counts were good enough to send us home, though (ANC was 1200 or something). His fever has persisted since, and he did labs at his clinic visit yesterday, and barely escaped with ANC of 670 or so. He has still had a fever today, and we'll be headed to clinic tomorrow morning for a follow up. I'm just hoping his counts are still high enough to escape the hospital. If he's still febrile and his counts drop below 500, we're gonna be stuck in-patient running IV antibiotics. Oh, and he feels like crap since he's running 102 or 103 fevers, so I really really want those to go away.

Almost forgot to mention... we were planning on heading to Camp Okizu for family camp this weekend, Memorial weekend. Looks like those plans are shot. My kids are all gonna be bummed, since they've had a grand time there before and were really looking forward to it.

Anyone for a big serving of crap sandwich? Good night.

- Greg
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