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We are home. I've realized that getting discharged might be the hardest thing to do in a hospital. Since you are okay and not an emergency anymore it seems you get overlooked. It took forever. We got the IV out around 12:30 and went to lunch to kill time. When we got back our discharge papers were waiting for us. But you have to go over them with the nurse. She came down (Steph is the best) and started going over them and we realized that we only had one of the perscriptions that we needed. So she ran and got the other one writen (which of course took a while) then we went over more papers. In the meantime Alivia had diarrhea (which they are always looking for..but she's had before and it hasn't been a big deal) but there was talking of calling the resident to see what he said. We finally decided to not call but we have to keep watching and see if it continues. We finally got to go and made it outside and Alivia was picking at her bandaid (over the IV site) so I decided to help her take it off. As soon as I did it started to gush blood. We grabbed napkins from the car and ran back up to the 7th floor. They looked at it and said it was because the clot came off when I took the bandaid off. They reapplied the pressure dressing and finally got to leave. Livi fell asleep almost as soon as she got in the car.

We are suppposed to be even more cautious about germs now that she is taking the chemo. So if you are going to be around us and have ANY kind of infection, flu, cold etc we should not hang out till your better. Also if your kids get immunizations we can't hang out for 3 days after that. If you have chickenpox, measles, shingles or your kids develop them 24-48 hours after we hang out call us immediately cause we'll have to go back to the hospital. (Like I didn't have enough to worry about) And finally no touching unless you have washed with antibacterial soap (that doesn't mean you washed 4 hours ago..that means more like 5 mins ago.) thanks everyone.


Oh yea the reason we got discharged...her white cells dropped to 91!! Thats more than half in a day. WOW. Hopefully that will continue to happen.


thanks for today

cards with stickers from Angie Stolzfus and Lori Randolph and the super pack of stickers from Grande Aunt Lisa
A really cute card from Ruth, Lydia and Paul Eckman (and their parents)
a card from Covenant Fellowships pastoral team (thanks for your prayers)
and a cute backpack with doll from Uncle Mike and Aunt Joanne (Lisa is calling herself Grande Aunt so you can too if you want....she keeps trying to brush the dolls hair..very cute.)