Geez, It's one thing to invite my parents for a visit. It's another to get stuck in a lockdown situation. Yesterday morning I called my parents in Winnipeg (Manitoba, that is Canada for those of you that don't know) and told them that I thought we had a small window of opportunity for a quick visit before Daniel's numbers tank and he is not feeling good for a while. I don't think I finished my sentence before my Dad had hung up on me and was on the phone with the airlines within mere minutes they were booked and packed and on there way. They arrived this morning to find Daniel greet them at the 7th floor doors and proceeded to walk yet another set of grandparents around the floor. After a nice day of visiting and feeling great I went to go for a walk in the fresh air with my mom and the hospital ended up in total lockdown. Noone in or out. A threatening call was made by someone (a nut job I guess). It is beyond me why anyone would possibly have any reason to threaten a children's hospital. What could that possibly accomplish. We were sent back up to the room so we all got to spend a few more hours watching Daniel play video games. Much less exciting than full police interrogation but I like boring.
On a bright side. At around 5 o'clock this morning Daniel officially completed his course of chemotherapy treatment. He did this with almost no excitement what so ever and no side effects. Only one bought of nausea and throwing up, but if you ask me, I personally think that was soley due to the Taco Bell from Colfax that evening, now I'm not a doctor but I'm just saying. So as of right now he is feeling really good now and his ANC (Absolute Neutrofil Count) is starting to come down, which means the chemotherapy is starting to do its job. So now we start the waiting phase. We wait for the counts to go down, and then when this happens this is when Daniel will feel like crap. His chance of infection will be high and this is the reason we need to be in the hospital. We did have a very optomistic doctor in the room today that said maybe this won't happen and the worst thing is you will just be terribly bored with eachother- if only this will be so. After the numbers go down to nothing we wait for them to go up (to 100) before he can go home. Let's hope this goes as plan and we are all just plain bored.
On a bright side. At around 5 o'clock this morning Daniel officially completed his course of chemotherapy treatment. He did this with almost no excitement what so ever and no side effects. Only one bought of nausea and throwing up, but if you ask me, I personally think that was soley due to the Taco Bell from Colfax that evening, now I'm not a doctor but I'm just saying. So as of right now he is feeling really good now and his ANC (Absolute Neutrofil Count) is starting to come down, which means the chemotherapy is starting to do its job. So now we start the waiting phase. We wait for the counts to go down, and then when this happens this is when Daniel will feel like crap. His chance of infection will be high and this is the reason we need to be in the hospital. We did have a very optomistic doctor in the room today that said maybe this won't happen and the worst thing is you will just be terribly bored with eachother- if only this will be so. After the numbers go down to nothing we wait for them to go up (to 100) before he can go home. Let's hope this goes as plan and we are all just plain bored.