Saturday, May 1, 2004

Kenna's Aplastic Anemia Journey - 05.01.2004



Date05/01/04 - Hospital
WBC

3.6

RBC1.92
HGB5.6
PLT26
SEG0
BAND0
ANC0



May 1, 2004


How quickly everything changes. And what happened to April??? Yesterday Kenna enjoyed a trip to the playroom as a princess.

Today it's hard to say what's going on.nobody knows.
Kenna got a red unit today and that usually energizes her. When I was there this afternoon giving Adrienne a break, she was listless and her blood pressure and heart rate high. That might be from some new meds she started the other day from the GI doctor because she hasn't eaten in a couple of weeks. That was being attributed to coming off of the steroids, but now it's been too long for that. The few bites she's willing to take, she usually throws up. She's pretty good with the liquid oral meds if they give her Ativan in her IV awhile before.
Her x-rays have shown a shadow in her chest so they had also decided to do a CT scan, but since that requires at least 8 minutes of lying perfectly still, sedation seems in order, so they are waiting for an anesthesiologist on Monday. She'll also have to get a regular IV for that--more pokies.

At least so far she doesn't have fever, but we are waiting to see.Daddy and Carsyn had a nice visit playing with Kenna yesterday afternoon, and now last night and today Carsyn's been running a temperature!

He was glad of the diversion of installing a new kitchen faucet for me because mine broke this week, the day after the kitchen drain backed up and needed rotor-rooter. He's now sitting with Adrienne tonight waiting on more culture results, and his sister Kelley is home with Carsyn.

I'm asking Mary to keep our eyes on the promise of the Resurrection like She did.
MJ