I know all of us are terrified of the swine flu (I now refer to it as pork chop fever for a little humor relief) and my nightmare came true this weeked.  Alexis was admitted on Friday with a fever of 103.  I already knew what she had since I was sick myself.  I wasn't allowed in the hospital until they knew for sure she had the same thing and that was the longest night of my life.  She had a terrible time with fever.  It didn't break until last night.  Her oxygen levels were of concern so she had to have oxygen until last night also.  She was able to come today since her fever and oxygen levels were finally under control.  We do have to have her counts checked again in two days because they have steadily declined and her hemoglobin and WBC are of concern right now.

I think it is hitting every child so differently.  Our hospital has actually seen more more kids without cancer that are being hospitalized than the cancer kids.  Of course, that is probably because we spend a lot of our time chasing our children with thermometers and tend to catch things faster