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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Time spent in the hospital on that day: 0!

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…