SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008 08:11 PM, EDT
Evening Update

Ally's fever continued for most of the day. A couple doses of Tylenol did not bring it down, but by bedtime her temp was back to normal. That doesn't mean it won't go back up tonight though. They took blood cultures to see if they could find why she has the fever. It will take a couple days for results to come back, in the meantime they are giving her antibiotics.

Ally had some good spurts of energy today. She wanted her books read to her about 12 times each!

She is on constant morphine right now, which makes her nose itch, so she scratches it, then when she pulls away she hits her very swollen and painful mouth causing her to cry...but we don't want to give her more pain meds (morphine) because then her nose will itch again.....it's a vicious cycle.

Ally is pretty much feeling miserable most of the time, but through it all she is still in a good mood. She will play stinky foot with us, and I even caught 2 or 3 smiles today!!!