It has been a while since I posted anything about Isabelle. We completed her hospital stays and they were brutal. She was accidently overdosed on a drug called adovan. It was a "safe" dose, but caused her to collapse, urinate everywhere, and have hallucinations. I had to hold her down because she couldn't stand up and she thought I was some kind of monster, so she fought me for about 2 hours. She then started to settle down, but had hallucinations for about 12 hours total. The mistake was not caught by the pharmacist or the nurse. The dose she was given was a dose they would give someone they were trying to anesthetize. (They gave her the drug for nausia.) I also gave birth while in the hospital with Isabelle which was pretty convenient. In one of our "off" weeks I had to take my son, who was 2 weeks old at the time, to the same hospital for a pylorectomy. He had whats called pyloric stenosis. That is when the pyloric muscle thickens and doesn't allow food to pass from the stomach to the intestines. It was a very simple procedure and he recovered quickly.
The next phase we began had a series of going to the clinic 4 days a week. It was a real pain, but we made it through that too. Right before we were supposed to start the maintenance phase we had a big scare. They thought Isabelle relapsed because her blast count in her blood started to elevate. (They noticed this because we were admitted to the hospital because she had a fever) Luckily all was ok and they did a bone marrow to double check. We were in the hospital 10 days just waiting for her white blood cells to build back up. It was a pretty brutal stay, filled with emotional turmoil as we waited to see if the leukemia was back. Everyone was expecting the worst, so we were shocked that she didn't relapse. We were very grateful as well. We ended up in the hospital the day we were supposed to move and we had to reschedule her birthday party.
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