Thankful Thursday...

Well what a week it has been. A mundane Monday turned into Topsy Turvy Tuesday. From my previous post you saw that they were going to run some blood tests on baby girl...well...Tuesday morning we received a call from the doctor stating that she need to be admitted to the Hospital immediately. It turns out that her white blood count was low and her blood platelets were extremely low (most kids are between 140,000 and 400,000 and she was at 3,000). They wanted to have her tested for Leukemia! Well that gave me to heeby jeebies! All I could do was pray and lift her up to God and say "Lord, she is your child. I know you will not give us more than we can handle." At that point, I had such a peace in my heart. My head was going a bazzilion miles and minute. The oncologist checked her physically and determined that there was no need for an immediate bone marrow biopsy (no swollen lymph nodes). She said "let's look at her blood work in the morning and we'll go from there." By Wednesday morning her platelets were up to 4,000, the biopsy would need to be done. It was only a 15 minute procedure, but probably the longest 15 minutes of my life! After the biopsy we knew that we would have an answer to the leukemia question within the hour. Well I don't think it took more than half an hour and the Dr. came back with the glorious news...it's a virus...no Leukemia!!! Praise God!!!! She is now on a regiment of steroids and pepcid ac. The steroids could cause mood swings...that's nothing new! Today is our first day home since Monday. I am soooooo looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight! God is good all the time!