Day -10

Today is our 3rd day of Campath, and thankfully, Gracie seems to be tolerating it much better. Her fever has gone away and she is much more playful than she was on Saturday. They started her on TPN last night which is basically all the nutrition she needs. She is still eating and nursing, which is encouraged, but due to the fact that she has had some vomiting and also they can't tell how much breastmilk she's getting, they went ahead and gave her the nutrition just for safety's sake.
This morning they drew blood at 4 am (this happens everyday) and both her hemoglobin and potassium were low so Gracie has had some red blood cells and some extra poatssium today so far. She's looking pretty good (a little pale because of the low hemolobin level) and doing well according to the doctors who visitied us about an hour ago. She seems to feel better and has been playing and flirting with all of her nurses today.
A couple of nice ladies from Speech Therapy and Physical Therapy came by this morning, and unfortunately Gracie was still drowsy from Benadryl and not interested in talking or playing much. I went ahead and asked that they start coming to visit in the afternoons when Gracie is in her prime, so I am really looking forward to seeing what all we can do to help Gracie along developmentally.

Anyway, so far so good. Gracie starts Busulfan tomorrow.

By the way, Rylie is down the hall from us and seems to be doing well. Also, Chance's mom had her new baby yesterday! Cooper Allen was born at 8:30 am yesterday morning. Congratulations Tracie and Ben!!!