December 14, 2009

This morning Trystan and I dropped Alyssa off at school and went to Maryville Quest for her bloodwork. After we finished there we came back to Greenville and Trystan started a little bit of physical therapy. She learned some excersises to do with her bad leg and how to use her crutches. Trystan was a little scared while we were there learning what 50% feels like on her right leg. We then went to McDonald's drive thru and ate lunch in the car. While we were sitting there Aunt Teri came thru the Drive thru and got in our car and ate with us too! After lunch we came home. We weren't home very long when the clinic called to let us know that all of Trystan's counts are extremely low! We left right away for Children's for a platelet transfusion. We arrived at the clinic at 2:30 p.m. The nurse did all of the pre-meds: hydrocortozone, benedryl, and tylenol. The transfusion began at about 3:30 p.m. and was to be about an hour long. Everything was going well until about 4:15 p.m. or so. Trystan was sitting on my lap, and I looked down at her to kiss her on the head and saw that she was getting hives! I called her nurse over. The nurse practitioners ordered another dose of hydrocortozone, along with zyrtek and pepsid to try to counteract the reaction. Her temperature was beginning to elevate, but came down as the rash started to lighten. Finally by about 5:45 p.m. the hives were lightening up and beginning to fade. We were allowed to leave, but I have to continue benedryl every six hours for the next 24 hours. I was told that we have to keep an eye on her and wake her up through the night to administer the benedryl. Hopefully, the hives will not return! Thank you to all of you who saw my plea on facebook when I cried out for prayers for her. God did answer!