October 11th, 2010-Charlotte’s first clinic day

Charlotte slept until 7:15 this morning, only got up once in the middle of the night and once about 6am…so it was a pretty decent night again!

She had a good breakfast and hung out at home with Mommy today before her appointment.  Mommy had to put on her numbing lotion before they left home so Charlotte already knew what was coming and she was not excited.

They met me at the hospital and we were able to get right in.  Charlotte’s blood pressure was good, looked like she gained weight, and her temperature was just right so so far so good.

She had to get another needle inserted into her port access so she was not happy at all with how that went…but they drew blood and sent it off to the labs right away.  Dr Diamond and Dr Rivers took a look at her and said she looked good.  They were glad to hear she had an active and safe weekend at home.  They said everything appeared to be good but we had to wait for the numbers.

And that didn’t take long.  I was playing with Charlotte on the other end of the waiting room when Amy came and got us.  They said the blood results were in and they all looked fine so we could go back into the examination room to remove her needle.  She wasn’t happy with that either but we got it over with quickly.  Then we were on our way home.

The Doctors said that her numbers looked as good as could be expected.  Her neutrophils were up to 190 from 30 on Friday.  Her platlet count was actually in the normal range up from 51k on Friday to 207k today.  White blood cell count went up too.  They noticed no blasts in her blood either so this is all good news.  I really like the new platlet count…especially since it was her dangerously low platelet count that got this whole diagnosis started…so I hope that means she is kicking this thing in the ass!

Amy read in Connor’s blog (an AML-M7 survivor) that every time they had a clinic day they treated him afterwards to McDonalds.  So we are going that route too.  We stopped in Sun Prairie on the way home and had some Mickey Ds in the van…Charlotte is still neutropenic so we couldn’t have her inside the restaurant around people yet…so we enjoyed our meal in the back of the van!  Another beautiful day for spending some time outside.

I took Charlotte home while Mommy went to her prenatal Dr appointment.  Everything checks out fine there too!  Good news all around.

Charlotte and I got home and what do you think we did?  Walked around the neighborhood…she loved it of course, even did a little running up the hill…because she felt like it!

She had a very very short nap on the way to Madison this afternoon so she was very moody and tired by the time the evening came to an end…Amy got her to sleep about 7:30 and she is still down yet (9:40).

We hope she has a restful night.  We had a great day, with great news.  The next step will be Thursday morning when she has another blood draw to make sure she has enough cells for the bone marrow biopsy later that morning.

Please continue to keep Charlotte in your prayers as Thursday nears.