THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008 07:20 PM, EST
From Ally's Mommy:

Hello,

Today was another long day for Ally. We began the day with not the best night of sleep ever (but not the worst). Then Mommy left for most of the day to take care of some school things. While she was gone Ally "went into the tent". It is this horrible plastic tent that goes over her for 2 hours and they spray her with meds. We have to wear masks if we are in the room. Ally DOES NOT LIKE THE TENT! Unfortunately they feel it is necessary for her to get over this virus. Hopefully it will be closer to the 3 days than the 7 days they gave us for a window. AFTER the tent Ally went to "sleep" for a little bit, with the help of some drugs so they could do the test with the radioactive drug inside of her. We have not received the results for that one yet. THEN she had to go back to the X ray room, they removed her old NG tube and stuck another one in her, which gave her a bloody nose and an angry mood. Then Mommy showed back up and they stuck her in the tent again. She managed to sleep for about 15-20 minutes. So, she again has not had a good sleeping day.

They are going to stick her in the tent again, around 8:00 for tonight for another 2 hours.

Last night they finally got to us around 9:30 and wanted to start the tent then, but Ally had finally fallen asleep, so we refused, and they just began this morning. We had to strongly refuse before they stopped trying to talk us into it.

Well, even though she went through a lot again today, it did seem like a better day (although I was out for most if it).

Tomorrow the only thing scheduled is the tent (3 times for 2 hours). Hopefully that will happen before she has to go to bed tomorrow!