The past few days of clinic visits have been a hassle. The drive is horrible and the traffic even worse. Isabelle is completely over the chemo that is a push in her tube. The saline that they flush her tube out with before and after they put the chemo in gives her mouth a gross taste and she hates it. Today we saw the doctor and her white blood count is down to 1,800. The doctor said that she can still go out, but to be careful around Mondayish because her counts should be really low by Tuesday. Her red blood count was kind of low and the doctor thinks she will need a transfusion by Tuesday. They gave her an Easter basket at the clinic full of goodies which helped keep her mind off of the gross taste in her mouth. The deaccessed her port and gave her a bandaid.
It took a whole 2 hours to get home from the clinic today because of bumper to bumper traffic coming back from DC. We arrived at the clinic at 12:45 and left at 2:30. We got home about 4:30 which was dinner time. Thank goodness someone had made us food that way we didn't have to waste any money on buying something on the road and trying to feed the girls. The main problem with Isabelles appointments are that they have been in mid-day which leaves no time to go anywhere really while her counts have been up. Not to mention the weather has been rainy and today it was cold. We were able to go to Chuck E Cheese for about an hour before we had to leave to the clinic. Next week she has her procedure appt. on Tues. at 10:30 (which sucks because it is so late and shes not going to be able to eat or drink), Wed. and Thurs her appts. are at 3, and Friday her appt. is at 9:15.
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