Checked In and Receiving Chemo

It has been a long day. Neither Rebekah nor Sarah slept real well, so Mommy was up quite a bit with one or the other of them. It is tough when everyone is sleeping in such close quarters. The girls can wake each other up and then it can be real trouble. At one point Rebekah was thrashing around in her sleep so much that mommy was beginning to worry that she wouldn't get back to good sleep. Mommy started to say a prayer for her to be restful and she settled right down. God answers prayers!

Mommy and Rebekah went into clinic to have Rebekah's blood counts done to make sure that she could begin chemo, while Daddy and Sarah stayed in the trailer and Daddy was able to do a little work.

After they drew the blood for the tests, the nurse said that she had fluids to start any time and it was up to mom whether to start now or wait until we had the counts back. Mom suggested that we start them soon. Before they can actually start the chemo, her urine has to be tested and cannot be too concentrated. Since she hadn't drank much for breakfast (or overnight), mom thought it would be good to start early. As it turned out they weren't able to start until 7 pm, because of her urine tests (so it was good we started the fluids early or it would have been even later. This means that it will be late Wednesday (after 8:15 pm) before we would be able to go home (at the earliest).

Her counts were still doing well, so she was admitted. Once we had a room, mom called dad to let him know and he and Sarah came over to the room to check in. Rebekah had fallen asleep and slept for a couple of hours early afternoon. Rebekah didn't want to touch her lunch or her dinner. She did eat a variety of snacks and when Grandma A came she ate some cheese. Grandma A is spending the night with Rebekah tonight while mom, dad and Sarah stay in the trailer. Thanks Grandma A!

It was a day of waiting and waiting and more waiting (and changing diapers every half hour to hour to try to meet the parameters so that chemo could start). Rebekah did pretty well through it, except for not eating and not drinking much.

Please keep up the prayers for a good week, keeping away the mouth sores and nausea and sleep for Rebekah, Sarah, dad and mom.