ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

A very quick update for everyone is in order. We have completed our first week of Chemotherapy. The week went pretty much without incident until Friday. Friday we had a big day scheduled. We had to be at the infusion center at 8:00 in the morning to receive 2 units of blood which takes about 4 hours to deliver. We were then scheduled to receive Chemo at 1:00. While they were giving her her Chemo, they noticed that she had a couple of black eyes and so ran labs and immediately sent us back to the infusion center for platelets. We finished up the platelets about 5:30 and when they checked her temperature she was running a fever of about 100 degrees and so we had to wait and see if it went down or if it was a platelet reaction. By 6:30 it was down to 99 and so they called the Doctor and he OK ed us to go home if we would carefully monitor her temperature through the night and if it went up would go to the hospital. She did pretty good with it hovering between 99 and 100 but when she woke up at 6;30 the fever was up to 102.3. I called the Doctor and he sent us to the ER where they ran blood tests and took x-rays and determined that she had pneumonia in her left lung and so she is now back in Eisenhower receiving heavy doses of antibiotics to try and knock down the pneumonia. As of this evening she is doing pretty good. They are able to keep the fever in check and she continues to receive about 4 different antibiotics. Her spirits are good and she continues to fight. Hopefully we will be able to get things under control and get her back home before the end of the week.
We continue to believe that we will ultimately whip this stuff and be able to move forward with our lives. As always we appreciate all of your faith and prayers and "CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH FAITH."