It must be Friday ....

...... because I have found my way home for a day or maybe two.Mark is holding down the fort at Children's for the time being and I will try and wrap Christmas up ... literally.Shop and wrap.That's the plan.However,I also have come home,sick.Or at least starting to get sick.That nagging tickle and scratchy throat began earlier today and by tonight it has definitely escalated to a REALLY sore throat.I came home and swallowed a hand full of vitamin C and various other homeopathic remedies,all done in hope of averting a major something or another.For good measure I threw in some ammoxicillin I had lying around.Lord knows why because if it is viral than an antibiotic won't do a bit of good.But hey,desperate times call for desperate measures .... I CANNOT GET SICK!!! First because I have so much to do to pull off this holiday and more importantly I need to take care of Zoey.Facts of the matter are, that I was most likely contagious before my symptoms even occurred and that scares me.Although ,I must say,Zoey has actually had a cold of some kind since we became inpatient.Her cough is nasty but lungs are clear.We need it to stay that way. It just proves to me that no matter how careful and fanatical,as I am,still sometimes you cannot avoid germs finding their way to you and in you.Yuck,not to mention,just really bad timing all around.I hope to wake tomorrow,maybe no better but hopefully no worse.Zoey had a fairly good day.Numbers were,let me say,interesting.Hemoglobin was 7.4 so a transfusion was in order.Transfusions usually take 4 hours.We began at 2 and by 6,Zoey was my pink feisty little love once again.Platelets took a HUGE hit.They dropped from 55 thousand to 16 thousand ...yikes.No transfusion yet but my pale little girl looked like a bruised and spotted little girl by days end.Poor baby.If we get to 5 or have nose or gum bleeds then we go straight to transfusion.I know ...sounds lovely doesn't it?Now the interesting part.Her ANC went from 350 to 540.Uh,wrong direction Miss Zoey!!! So hopefully the next draw will be in decline.No big deal though,just the nature of this beast.Nothing else to report of interest.I promised a friend that I would go to bed early but ...sorry Pam.When you don't get home until 9 and I wasn't finished reading to the boys until 10 and I needed to spend some time with the girls,well,Midnight sneaks right up on you.Prayers that Zoey doesn't get whatever I have and that I can keep this from morphing into a nasty deal.Do I need to cry uncle now cuz seriously ..... enough.