We were told about 5 different times that we were going home this morning. I started to pack the bags when doctor Kaikov came back and said they would like to keep Dominique one day more because her ANC count is still zero. My heart sank, and immediately I did all I could to convince him to […]
April 24th A Bug…
Things were a little more complicated today than expected. Dom’s blood tests revealed that her platelets were still extremely low so she received her third transfusion today. Her stool sample came back she has been diagnosed with some sort of “bug”/infection in her bowels/intestines. She was put on different antibiotics to treat her new diagnosis and was […]
April 23rd Still admitted to hospital…
Dominique’s platelets (blood clotting substance) declined to pretty much zero so she needed another blood transfusion today. Her blood counts are still extremely low as her neutraphils (infection fighting substance) is at zero. The docs have told us she needs a significant neutraphil count increase before we can go home. This could realistically take several days. […]
April 22nd Still living “in isolation”
Dominique’s fever seems to have broke today and she seemed so more chipper and more her normal smiley self. She didn’t vomit today and even ate some toast for dinner. One nurse kept commenting that Dom was a completely different baby than yesterday. Dominique’s blood counts (aside from her platelets) have gone up a little since her blood transfusion […]
April 21st Admitted to hospital
Dom was having a restless night sleeping…bursts of crying then she’d doze off- repeating this over and over again. Finally at 3am we went to check her, gave her a bottle and then took her temperature which reached 37.9. We took it three other times hoping it was a mistake and it would go down. […]
April 19th More Central Line Supplies
Last night when we were doing the daily maintenance on Dom’s “Central Line” we realized we are running out of supplies. This morning we called an Oncology nurse and had the hospital pharmacy make us another kit. So it was a “quick” trip to the hospital to pick up the supplies. I’ve learned though being a […]
April 17th Blood Count Check
Blood work is a lot easier for both parents and child when her central line works. A 5 minute job at most with not a single tear shed (well for that anyway). Dom’s number (number 1 not number 2 thank god) which leaked through on Dada’s pants was the only excitement out of the day and […]
April 15th Happy 1st Birthday Dominique!!
Wow…. One year has passed already. This day has brought us unexpected mixed emotions. To sum it up, I guess because we never ever visualized that Dom would have cancer on her first birthday. But regardless, we threw a little family party with cake and presents for her on Sunday and treated her like a birthday princess […]
April 13th Cute Pix
Time spent in the hospital on that day: 0!
April 10th Chemotherapy-Cycle #2
Our appointment was at 8:30am. By the time all the chemo drugs arrived from the pharmacy it was 9:45am when Dom was hooked up. I think we will call the next time to prevent unnecessary waiting time in the clinic. We spoke with Dr. Bond who gave us some very promising news. He compared Dom’s […]