Happy Birthday Mattie

Mattie celebrated her seventh birthday yesterday. It was very uneventful, school, homework, and hanging out with her boring parents. We took her to Wendy's drive-through and called it a day! We actually celebrated her birthday on Sunday with family. The power was out for about an hour and a half that night so they all got a taste of life without tv. What a terrible thing!!! We had a good time visiting with Denny and Merr and Dan and Court while it was out.

Monday I took Kael to clinic. He woke up with a temp so we went as quickly as we could. I was upset about the length of time it took to get anyone to see him. We were there for 2 1/2 hours before they even took his temp. It was gone by then so we proceeded with his backpoke and chemo. He had another temp while we were there but the ARA-C (chemo) gives him a fever anyway so they don't know what to blame it on. They don't think it is an infection because his counts were to good on Sunday for there to be any problems. He has a cough and runny nose but they aren't very concerned. They kept saying he looked to good to be coming down with something but I felt different. That night he ran another temp of 104. Keep in mind they don't like him to have a temp of 100.3. I called the oncologist on call but he wasn't concerned either. I gave him some Tylenol and 1 1/2 later he still had a temp of 103. He fevered all night and was still 102 at 6:00 a.m. It finally broke about 7:30. His cough and nose is getting worse and he threw-up last night while we were out-and-about. We give him ansemet before the chemo so he won't get sick to his stomach. I just never know what to expect. We have done two different liquid chemo's here at home the last two day. We will finish with one of them tomorow and the other one lasts for a week. He will have the same treatments next week and then we wait two weeks for his counts to rebound. If they are back up on February 25th we will have his line removed and the port put in.

We were going to bless Kayson on Sunday but feel it is in Kael's best interest to cancel. Hopefully we will get around to it before he is walking:)

Jed, Matt's co-worker and good friend, spent a few nights with us this week. Kael loved having another bald guy in the house! (P.S. Jed, we do have internet again!!)