Thursday, February 15, 2007, 09:16 PM

On Tuesday, Feb. 13th we went to the clinic for our weekly visit. This time for a finger stick (sticky pricky as Adelaine calls it), to check her blood counts. Again, her counts came back low, her ANC was at 700. The good news was that her blood tests from the week before came back (which was supposed to take a few weeks), it was normal. So apparently the 6MP is not reacting negatively to her body, so to speak. One of the doctors reviewed her chart and said that everything looked normal and there didn’t appear to be a problem. So why her counts are remaining on the low side still remains a mystery. Maybe her body is just tired from these seemingly never ending chemo treatments and from fighting off so many germs, which takes us to our most recent events…

Sandwiched in between two days of clinics and chemo, we were able to celebrate a very special Valentine’s Day, a Klondike Bar kind of day! The boys set off to school with all their Valentines and ready for their parties. Adelaine and I had to pass on attending any parties with them, so we spent the day at home. That morning we all exchanged gifts. In the spirit of loosing weight and being healthy, I banned chocolate from the list of appropriate gifts. In fact, during those moments of insanity I recall saying to Doug something like, “If you give me anything chocolate for Valentine’s Day, I’ll be mad at you”. Then the day before, I said, “Too bad I made that rule about the chocolate, a little chocolate sounds good about now”. Poor guy, he doesn’t stand a chance figuring me out!!! Just to be safe, I did go out and buy a tiny box of chocolates for myself. Honest, it only had four pieces in it!

So, we all exchanged our Valentine’s gifts. The children got their toys. Doug got a watch and I got… chocolate and candy and a Bucks jersey, and…
a baby sitter. Yep, Doug arranged all on his own for Ashley to come over so we could go out on a romantic dinner date. He even called and made reservations ahead of time! The chocolate was a little risky, but he pulled Valentines Day off like a real charmer. Way to go Doug!!! What a nice and much needed break, especially considering what was to follow.

Oh, but before we go there, I have to mention two things about our special V day. One was that a really nice mom and her daughter made us dinner that night. Wow, how nice was that to make dinner for us on Valentines Day. Also, when the children were eating dinner, Mason started complaining of a loose tooth. The first tooth he lost he swallowed while eating Cheeze Its. This time he and Ashley pulled the second one while we were out on our date. So, what does a mom have to do to be in on the tooth action. I was there loving him, cheering him on helping him through the pain while they came in, I would really like to be there when they come out, at least once!

Ok, anyway, back to reality..
Last night Adelaine was up most of the night saying that her ear was hurting. By 2:30 this afternoon she had a high fever (103.8 to be exact) and to put it nicely, food was revisiting us for the second time around! We made a mad dash down to the clinic and about 3 ½ hours later we had a room at All Children’s Hospital. Her ANC is now at 600, which is only 100 points from being just plain terrible. Because of the fever we will be here for a mandatory 72 hours. Hopefully after a night of fluids and high power antibiotics she will feel better tomorrow and we can enjoy playing with all her goodies that stay packed away just for these “special occasions”!

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