Thursday, July 31, 2008

Cycle 8, Day 11

Gianni's still doing well. Dad and Bruno are up at the cabin and Gianni and I are in for a long, relaxing girls weekend. She does have clinic and (most likely) transfusions scheduled for tomorrow. We'll go in the morning and hopefully be home for a late lunch. Getting blood products while neutrapenic is always a bit iffy. Sometimes getting the blood makes her spike a little fever; fever + neutrapenia is an automatic admit. Trish has been great about letting her be pre-medicated with Tylenol to help alleviate any spikes - keep your fingers, toes, eyes, whatever crossed.

She had a long nap today, woke up around 6:30pm and ate TWO whole pieces of pizza (did I mention that Tony is out of town?)! I could not believe it - she'll be keeping up with Bruno's appetite before we know it. Its late, and we should both be in bed - but she's here with me at the kitchen table painting. She's really great.