Lily has been fighting a horrible cough and congestion the last few weeks and even ran a low grade fever this past week. Her white blood counts were extremely high due to the daily Neupogen shots I had to give her. When they are high like that, she feels sick and achy.

This week, even though we continued the shots, her white counts came crashing down because of the chemo. Her hemoglobin and platelets were also low, which makes her feel weak, tired and headachy, so today she had a blood transfusion. Although she has had several transfusions of hemoglobin, today was the first time that she needed a transfusion of platelets and she ended up having an allergic reaction with hives and itching. Today was also the first time I wasn't at the clinic with Lily during a blood transfusion.

I am so thankful to my mom for volunteering to go with her, as I had a lot of work I needed to do. It was a long day for them both- 6 hours! Thank you momma.

Today's transfusion should help Lily feel better and she has next week off from chemo for evaluations.