Loving Taylor

Hello all - Happy Monday to all of you!! I hope you had a great weekend. We had a crazy weekend. I didn't make it home until Sunday and spent all day Sunday at home with Savannah. Taylor had an OK weekend but was very tired and continued to have no appetite. Currently she has lost 1 1/2 pounds since Friday (which a lot for someone her size). When I got back to the hospital today she has come down with 2 mouth sores and EXTREMELY swollen gums. So....that is why she isn't eating. The oncologist also thinks she might have sores in her esophagus. She is at least drinking some milk and will eat a little yogurt. I ended up having to have the nurses give her a dose of Morphine today because her mouth hurt so bad. She was crying and miserable. The morphine helped with the pain but she still wouldn't eat. At this time, we are just going to monitor her weight loss and see if she can maintain where she is at. Her temperature also spiked up today to just below a fever....so we are praying she makes it through the night without spiking. Her blood counts continue to be ZERO!!! Will she ever go up???? The answer to this question, is yes, but we just don't know when. They told me today that the average length of stay for Round 2 is 35 days!! We are on day 20 so think we have a long couple weeks ahead of us. I keep hoping (like last round) that she will rebound quickly and we will be home.....we will see!!!

So....all in all, it was an OK weekend but she really isn't feeling well today!! I am back home tonight so that I can take Savannah to school tomorrow (first day) and I will be working Tuesday and Wednesday. I will post more later but have a ton of work to catch up on right now.

Thanks,
Kristen and Taylor