Karlee finished off her 4 days in a row pretty easily. Mom and Karlee were in and out in about 30 minutes on Thursday and then Dad and Karlee were a little slower on Friday, but were still done in about 45 minutes. Saturday we were up there early in the morning and had a great nurse in the Unit. We were done nice and quick and the nurse even gave Jennifer a little lesson on how to use her new BlackBerry. Saturday afternoon Ryley had a hockey game and the team showed great spirit coming back from a deficit to win. Even the ref came by and said our bench were incredible cheer leaders for the players on the ice.
Tuesday was the Beaver Pizza Party at Tom’s House of Pizza. We had a full house with 32 Beavers and 8 Leaders. The kids and adults all got to make their own pizzas behind the counter and then everyone ate. We all had a good time.
Wednesday morning Karlee had a CBC (Complete Blood Count) at the South Calgary Lab. The lab managed to misplace the appointment, but thankfully got them in pretty quickly. Around noon we got a call from our primary nurse, JoJo. Karlee’s counts were very low and they want to get her a transfusion very soon. Jo gave us a choice of coming in today and getting the crossmatching done and coming back on Thursday for the blood or just making it a long day on Thursday and doing everything at once. We elected to be up there at 8:30 Thursday morning and tough it out for the long haul. Karlee’s counts are the lowest they have been since she was diagnosed. Her hemoglobin in down to 67. The last time she got a transfusion she was down to 61. What has us more concerned is her white blood cell count is down to 0.6 and her ANC is 300. This means she is neutropenic and is very susceptible to any infections or anything else floating around. Hopefully her transfusion goes nice and easy tomorrow and they are home early.
Wednesday night Ryley got to be goalie for his hockey team’s practice. He went out there and gave it everything he had, but still had a tough go of it. The equipment weighed more than he did and he found it very hard to move around. About 30 minutes into the practice he told the coach that was working with him that he didn’t want to play anymore. We convinced him to finish the hour and a quarter practice, but he doesn’t want to play in the game tomorrow night. Hopefully next year he will have grown into the equipment and will be able to try it again.
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