Morgan woke up feeling pretty weak and nauseous today. We headed into Children's for our appointment. When we arrived, she got her blood drawn and then we met with the doctor.
Upon checking her over, it was discovered that she had spiked a fever and her blood counts were severly low. When a cancer patient has a fever, it most likely means they have an infection or virus of some sort. So they immediately put her on some IV antibiotics. In addition, because her blood counts were so severely low, they started a blood transfusion. She was also very dehydrated because she had not eaten or drank very much in the past few days and then thrown up quite a bit last night. So she was also put on IV fluids to rehydrate.
She seemed to have bounced back this afternoon. Her color returned and she was generally feeling better.
She was admitted and will need to remain in hospital until they get the results of the blood culture to determine what and where the infection is coming from. The blood culture will take aproximatley 48 hours to grow. Therefore, she will remain in the hospital until at least Sunday, but it is sounding more likely than not, it will be Monday or Tuesday.
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