Platelets

I left for Missouri with a platelet count of 51 (I believe they are suppose to be at least 150). Mom, Stephanie and I left from Colorado around 8 on Thursday and drove straight through to Missouri. It wasn't too bad because we had 3 drivers. The weather was off and on with raining and strong winds :( But we made it!!!  As we turned onto our road I saw fireflies!!! I was so excited!!! Then as we were coming in we were attacked by June bugs, not fun :(

Friday mom and I spent most of the day cleaning. I mostly worked on laundry and dishes.

Saturday I spent the day with my grandma playing dominoes and going through pictures. That night my family went to the benefit dance. I felt so blessed that my moms friends set this up for me. They had a dance, a silent auction, a raffle and of course food! I'm not much of a dancer, but I think I finally got the electric slide down and the charlie brown! I had to be careful though and take breaks frequently. On my way home I stopped by wal-mart and my nose started bleeding I just sat down holding my nose until it stopped, it took about 20 minutes :(

Sunday I went to church at Strafford with my dad and two of my nephews. Since my nephews were so good we let them play at the playground and we took them to McDonalds. I spent half of the day with my grandma. I brought my daily bible and did some reading. I was however slightly distracted by how quiet and calm it was. I could hear the gentle breeze and the birds chirping outside the window. It was beautiful! Thank you Lord. When I got home I learned that my mom was going to be spending time with her friend Barb. So I decided I would take up the responsibility of getting the house in order.

Monday I spent most of the day doing laundry and cleaning the house and taking care of my 3 nephews. I had insisted that Rachel and Michael go into town to run their last minute errands since Rachel was going to be induced on Tuesday. Around dinner time my nose started bleeding and wouldn't stop. Mind you I didn't stop doing everything because I was preparing dinner for the boys. Eventually I got to sit down to stop it but I'd get up and start working again and my nose would start bleeding. Eventually I called my mom and told her I was scared because it had been about an 1.5 hours and hadn't fully started bleeding. I did call the on call neuro-oncologist and told me if it wouldn't stop bleeding to go get it cauderized. Mom called Rachel and Michael and everyone was on their way back. By the time they got home my nose bleed stopped. The bleeding stopped long enough for my family to resolve some issues. I was getting up to go to bed and my nose started to bleed again and I decided to go to the ER around 10:30. Since I was going to be at the hospital I decided to have my labs done since my oncologist wanted me to get them done on Tuesday, I figured it was close enough to Tuesday. We got to the ER and immediately got since to the back, it was because my immune system is compromised. The doctor didn't give me too much advice that I didn't already know about. He did give me a nose clip that should help stop the bleeding. After that every new person that came in the room I joyfully asked are you going to take my blood?

I found out on Tuesday that my counts had dropped to 31. My sister had an appointment to be induced but when she called in they said that they didn't have any availabilities for her. They told her to call later and when she did they said that they had just admitted 3 new patients. She was very upset. Eventually around 1:00 she was told to come in. She had Megan Sophia (she is going to go by Sophia) at 7:57 pm weighing in at 6 pounds 10.5 ounces. She has bright blue eyes and long blonde hair. She is so incredibly cute.

I got the chance to have lunch with Brenda, I used to babysit her two girls who have grown up so much! I'm so thankful for her. She is an optomatrists and I went to her office to see if I could find some new glasses since I've been wearing them a lot more because of my extremely dry eyes. I was so excited to find them but ended up feeling even more blessed to have her say that she was going to buy them. For those of you who wear glasses you understand how expensive they can get especially if you have bad eyesight like me. I also had my labs done and they had dropped to 27.

While I was home I got to see my friend Amanda and her family came over. She has a 10 week old, Kaden. He seems so big, but that is most likely because sophia seems so very little.

I went to church in Fair Grove with my Grandma. Sunday night my sisters and I went through the shelves that contain some of our childhood memories. Finally got to bed around midnight but  my nose started bleeding.  I tried several different methods and combinations of methods but couldn't get it stopped. Finally around 3:30 in the morning I walked upstairs to my moms room and told her I think I might need to go back to the ER. She was able to calm me down and to get the bleeding to stop.

Monday was my last full day at home, I had been in town to get my labs done again along with visiting with my friend Laura and her daughter my labs drawn which tuned out to be at 24 now even with the resting I had been doing. When I got home two of my cousins were there with their kids. My aunt Charlotte also came over. It was so great seeing them. I'm very glad they came out to visit I had wanted us all (whole family) to get together for a game night which we typically do but I was in no condition to plan it or really have the energy to do much with them.

Mom and I flew back to Colorado incredibly early Tuesday morning. We almost didn't make it to our second flight. We got to the airport a little later than we had planned but still with plenty of time. However we had to stand in the line for an unusually long time, they were having issues with printing boarding passes and luckily the flight was delayed. We got to Memphis and just barely made it to our next flight, they had been trying to find us, we were the last two people to board. My friend Carlos picked us up and drove us back to fort collins. Home sweet home.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being home, but it is very nice to be back in CO. There has been so much going on in Missouri it has been hard to really relax. So I'm hoping that I'll get some better resting accomplished while at home.