{"id":208,"date":"2008-11-06T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-11-06T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T06:57:00","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serenity seemed to be feeling much better today.  She didn&#8217;t throw up at all &#038; she asked several times to get out of bed.  Her ANC is still at 200 and her platelets had dropped to 7, so she received 2 transfusions today (1 blood and 1 platelets).  I was relieved that the doctor finally wanted to transfuse her.  She&#8217;s got some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/petechiae\/HQ01208\">petechiae<\/a> again and bruising on her legs *from where the diaper rubs against them*.  It was too much like when she was diagnosed, and I was trying not to freak out.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor also decided that now that she&#8217;s not taking chemo she should start getting Neupogen shots daily.  (Phil &#038; I will have to administer them.)  These will help to raise her ANC gradually, with the goal of leaving the hospital once it is high enough for her to ward off infection.<\/p>\n<p>Today her temp climbed to 104.2 which also freaked me out but it did come down again once she got the Tylenol (which they will not give rectally due to risk of infection).  So we&#8217;re making progress I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serenity seemed to be feeling much better today. She didn&#8217;t throw up at all &#038; she asked several times to get out of bed. Her ANC is still at 200 and her platelets had dropped to 7, so she received 2 transfusions today (1 blood and 1 platelets). I was relieved that the doctor finally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progress?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}