Mom has been in the hospital since Friday. She had chemo last week after fighting fevers for a while, and they came back stronger than ever last Tuesday. She alternates periods of chills with temperature spikes with a little time to rest inbetween. Friday afternoon I left work early to see her, and she was in the throes of terrible shaking. After that episode passed, her temperature spiked to 106 and they had to ice pack her and give her steroids to try to bring the temperature back down so they could give her blood. Her non-leukemia white cell count was at zero, but they had to get the fevers under control first before they could give her blood.

They were able to bring it down enough Friday night to give her the blood and she had a normal temperature Saturday morning. She looked so much better, but last night had a set back with temps back up to 104. It's so hard seeing her suffer like this and know there's nothing you can do but pray. It's my mommy, you know?