Fever, Sores and Hospitalization OH MY

Elsa got a fever on Sunday morning, but we decided to watch it and it went back down on its own. When my mom was about to go to bed she checked Elsa one more time and she had a fever of 101.6, so she called Riley and they told her to go to Lutheran. My mom came to Lutheran on Sunday night/ Monday at about 1 a.m. and Elsa was admitted. One of the common side effects of Chemo is fever, drop in white blood cell count and sores around the mouth. This is exactly what happened. When Elsa left Riley on Thursday her white blood cell count was 3.1 and when she was admitted at Lutheran the count was at 0.5. The healthy range is between 5.5 and 17.5 so she has obviously dropped a little low. The doctors here said that they want to keep her here until her fever drops, her blood cultures come back good (she doesn't have an infection) and her white blood cell count starts to rise again. The room next to us is a boy that my mom saw at Riley who is at the end of his treatment for Lymphoma as well and his parents said that he has had to be hospitalized for the same symptoms almost every single time he comes home from Riley. That is going to be awesome. 

Elsa is being such a trooper, but she is very miserable. The sores by her mouth are open and bloody and her diaper rash from the toxic Chemo pee is just starting to heal. She is achy and uncomfortable constantly and she has not wanted very much to eat or drink all day. 

We hope that she gets out of her sooner rather than later, but the soonest she will leave Lutheran will be four days. Lets shoot for that. She just needs to break this fever first.