September 3, 2009

Throughout the night last night Trystan cried and expressed that her throat was hurting. Most of the time she was doing it while she was sleeping. Tracy and I decided that maybe she shoud go back to the doctor to have her throat looked at. We were thinking that it might be strep, mouth sores from chemo, or thrush. She wouldn't eat anything for breakfast. After dropping Alyssa off at school this morning we headed to Maryville for counts. She was not at all happy about having to have a needle stuck in the arm instead of a finger stick. We came back home from getting counts and I tried to get her to eat some lunch. She ate very little because her throat was hurting so badly. I had gotten an appointment for her at 2:00 p.m. so we left the house to go into town. The doctor looked into her throat and said that it still just looked like drainage. We are to continue to give her the antibiotic, inhaler, zyrtek, and singulair and to start up with children's mucinex. After the doctor's visit we ran over to the school to pick up Alyssa and Trystan's homework. Children's called to tell us what Trystan's counts were. It was just as we expected her hemoglobin was good, white blood cells and platelets were way too low. We are to continue to give her her "super hero" shots. Her total anc is very low as well. Since she is sick with the bronchitis we have to really watch her to be sure that she doesn't get a fever. Her body really can't fight this infection with her white counts as low as they are. Please continue to pray for our little Trystan.