November 6, 2009

This morning we got up and went for counts. We came back home to start getting ready to go to Tracy's dad's visitation. Just before leaving, we got our call from the clinic with Trystan's counts. All of her counts are continuing to climb except for her platelets they dropped in half. We headed off to the visitation. It was very touching all of the people who came out to the visitation. John touched so many lives. Praise God!!! After the visiation we headed home. I picked Trystan up and brought her inside the house. I was getting her evening medications together when Alyssa yelled, "Uh mom, Trystan's nose is bleeding. It's bleeding really bad!!" I applied pressure to the bridge of her nose and thought I finally had gotten it to stop. But, a clot fell out of her nose and the bleeding started again a little harder. We thought again we got it to stop but an even larger clump came out and bled even harder. Tracy applied pressure while I called the on-call oncologist. She gave some suggestions of other things to do and told us if it continued to clot and dislodge and bleed over the next hour we would have to call her back and come to the ER to have it looked at. While on the phone with her, an even larger clot came out with gushes of blood. Trystan was screaming and crying from being completely afraid. We did the suggestions she told us and had prayer chain from church going and it finally stopped. We monitored her through the night to be sure her nose didn't begin bleeding while she was sleeping. Another sleepless night at the Watson house.