Crazy Weekend

This weekend was a whirlwind! We went to College Station on Friday. It was about a 2 hr. drive. Michael went to the A&M game on Saturday and I drove to New Braunfels for a funeral. We lost a close family friend, Nancy Baese, to Leukemia. It was a very sad funeral and Nancy will definitely be missed. After the funeral I drove back to College Station with plans to stay for the night. Rachel started to feel bad yesterday and had a fever by the time I got back so we packed the car and had to bring her back to Houston in case she needed to see a doctor. Her fever responded to Tylenol and went away. Today she had it again so we had to take her in to see the doctor at the Emergency center. They had to take a blood culture from her port to check for infection. Her ears and throat looked ok so they can't really figure out what's wrong. They gave her some IV drugs to fight any possible infection. They also tested her for H1N1 because it's been going around. We have to put her on Tamiflu just as a precaution. She doesn't have any flu symptoms except for fever so we don't think she'll have it. We have to wait 2-3 days to make sure. The ER visit wasn't bad because they have a pretty efficient emergency room system at the hospital. We waited 5 min. to go back and the doctor that treated her was a pediatrician from her clinic- that was very comforting!! They knew what to check for and treat and we were out of there in 3 hours- that's the fastest ER trip yet. She seems to be doing better now. We just have to watch her fever closely. As long as she doesn't have fever tomorrow she will still start radiation on Tuesday. She can't have the anesthesia she needs if she's sick so we'd have to wait it out. Please just pray that her fever subsides tonight.