Shake it off Olivia!

Olivia is doing OK for right now on our 2nd night at the hospital. She was playful this morning and very talkative. She still has low grade fever in the morning and spikes up at night. It was as high as 103.9 last night. Her daily oral chemo was put on hold yesterday just to make sure it will not interfere with her blood counts. Her current chemo tends to lower her counts as a side effect.

There was nothing alarming with her blood counts and her initial blood culture came in negative. She will proceed with her chemo today since everything seems normal with her blood counts. Since she still has fever, they will do a repeat blood culture to make sure nothing is brewing in her. It's likely a viral infection she is trying to fight.

I'm also concerned that she has not been eating well today. I guess when you don't feel well, you don't have an appetite to eat at all. She had a few bites of french toast, some noodles, plus a bottle of pediasure for the day. I tried to give her jello and that almost made her throw up. She wouldn't even try cheese bread (cheese has been her favorite this past month!). My poor baby girl. She would allow me to spoon feed her but most of the time she would just keep the food in her mouth. I let her spit it out and give her another spoon, hoping at least she's sucking some of the nutrients.

Before going to sleep tonight, she heard me listening to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" song. She shouted, "that's my song!!!", and danced to the tune. That's it Olivia, shake that infection off my baby girl!!!