No fevers today and negative for RSV!
Keeping our fingers crossed for tonight and tomorrow. Mina Brigitta did spike Friday night at about 3 AM, and was warm but not officially feverish when I woke up Saturday morning. We kept waiting for her to spike a fever all day, but it didn't happen. She still has the nausea though -- she threw up in the middle of the night, this morning, and again in the afternoon. She's still throwing up lots of stringy white mucous from the RSV -- that's probably enough to make anyone ill. But good news on the RSV front as well -- the swab they did yesterday came back negative! They'll want another negative test before they declare it officially gone and allow her into the hallways and the playroom, but this is great, and somewhat unexpected, news. Keri came down with a major runny nose today, so now we're wondering if Mina Brigitta didn't have a new virus this week that she somehow transmitted to Keri (but not to me). Who knows.
She had a really nice day today, as well. I was kind of dreading it, because we don't have anyone else in town so it was going to be only Keri and me in the hospital room all day. But my friend Awais came, who Mina Brigitta now refers to as "Emma's Dadda", and we took Isaac and went to the local Indian restaurant. Meanwhile, Keri's friend Liza also showed up, and spent an hour or so entertaining Mina Brigitta while the boys were out. Mina Brigitta was making both of them draw babies on the magna-doodle she got from the Little Wishes foundation. Later on, she did the same to both the day nurse and the night nurse, as well as the nurse's aide. Awais also took some very cute video of her playing with her brother. She was almost back to her old, cute self. Just in time for Auntie Kari to arrive!
Four weeks after starting chemo, Mina Brigitta's hair is now starting to fall out in earnest. She's constantly getting a hair in her pacifier, which is quite frustrating to her. She also occasionally reaches up and grabs a handful of hair and pulls it out. Luckily, so far it's just sort of gotten thin and hasn't fallen out in big clumps or left any bald spots. I expect she'll be completely bald in a few weeks, and will probably stay that way until late spring. I'll miss her wavy blond hair a lot!
She had a really nice day today, as well. I was kind of dreading it, because we don't have anyone else in town so it was going to be only Keri and me in the hospital room all day. But my friend Awais came, who Mina Brigitta now refers to as "Emma's Dadda", and we took Isaac and went to the local Indian restaurant. Meanwhile, Keri's friend Liza also showed up, and spent an hour or so entertaining Mina Brigitta while the boys were out. Mina Brigitta was making both of them draw babies on the magna-doodle she got from the Little Wishes foundation. Later on, she did the same to both the day nurse and the night nurse, as well as the nurse's aide. Awais also took some very cute video of her playing with her brother. She was almost back to her old, cute self. Just in time for Auntie Kari to arrive!
Four weeks after starting chemo, Mina Brigitta's hair is now starting to fall out in earnest. She's constantly getting a hair in her pacifier, which is quite frustrating to her. She also occasionally reaches up and grabs a handful of hair and pulls it out. Luckily, so far it's just sort of gotten thin and hasn't fallen out in big clumps or left any bald spots. I expect she'll be completely bald in a few weeks, and will probably stay that way until late spring. I'll miss her wavy blond hair a lot!
posted by Arne Olson @ 11:53 PM
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