Sleep at last.

Finally Serenity is asleep! I thought this moment would never come. She alternates between feeling fine and being bored in her hospital room and looking sick. She’s been fever free for most of the day but she did spike a low grade fever at one point. Her cough comes and goes. It will be interesting to see what the morning brings since she has been sicker in the mornings the past few days.

I hope that the antibiotics they are giving her kick in and that she’s feeling better quickly and that we can go home. But I am glad we are here because I’d be worried about her every minute at home and wondering if she was about to take a turn for the worst.

Originally the clinic did not want me to make the 1 1/2 hour drive to the hospital when I called about her fever. With an ANC under 500 the nurse said kids can get very sick very fast. But I pushed to come up here, because if we’re going to be inpatient with low ANC I want to be on the immune compromised ward.

Because she feels alright much of the time, Serenity doesn’t understand why we can’t just go home. She keeps asking to leave, and was determined not to fall asleep here at the hospital. I’ve made up my mind that I need to pack another hospital bag that is always ready, and loaded with fun things to do when we’re stuck in a hospital room.