Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:37 PM, EST

Ally had blood drawn this morning. Her counts were low when she left the hospital, so they wanted to check them today to see if she needed a transfusion. The labs were drawn at 8:30 this morning. I still have not heard from the hospital, so I am assuming we don't need to go today. Chances are, if we are not already in the hospital for a fever, we will be headed up on Friday for a transfusion.

Ally has been lacking energy since we have been home. She has wanted a lot of lap/reading book time. Her naps have been longer than usual, and we are putting her to bed a bit early. The kid is wiped out. All the extra cuddling is great though!

As I was looking through our pictures from the hospital I noticed Ally's "no - no". This was the cast like thing on her arm in the pictures. It is simply meant to keep Ally from pulling out the IV in her arm. She adapted very quickly to not being able to bend her arm. It was really cute when she held something in that hand and then used her good arm to manipulate it. It took her a good hour or two when it came off to start using that arm again.



We have begun Ally’s nightly feeds again. Before chemo she was getting 38mls an hour (30mls=1oz) for about 10 hours. The first night back we gave her 10mls an hour, and last night bumped it up to 15mls. She is tolerating that okay, but is still not interested in eating during the day...there go those awesome 24 pounds she used to weigh. We knew this would cause her to lose weight. Grrrr.

That's all for now. We are hoping to be able to see Grammy and Grandpa (as they are only 15 minutes away, and if we need to head to the hospital it is not too much of a longer drive...so sad to miss the Grammie and Grampa side.) for Thanksgiving tomorrow. It will be Grammie’s birthday the day afterward.

Happy Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for this year!