Thanksgiving week

Just wanted to give everyone a little update on how things have been going on in our world lately!  So here I go...After the ER visit during the bad weather unfortunately things didn't get much better after that little visit!  She continued to run fever over the weekend and on Monday the week of Thanksgiving she had a fever of 101 so the doctors wanted Kinslee to have more antibiotics.  It was a crazy stressful day but with the help of our wonderful pediatrician and our new "Hendrick" pediatrician (who was also wonderful) we were able to skip the ER and go straight over to the hospital.  We were greeted by our family friend and child life specialist Megan Clifton.  Her sweet face was so comforting to us all :) Thank goodness we were home that night in time to eat dinner and sing Happy Birthday to my Big 5 year old Cason Kole! 

We celebrated W's birthday over the weekend too!

(excuse Kinslee in her night gown please...she stayed in her gown all weekend due to not feeling well)

 

Happy 5th birthday Cason!

 (yes he has the same clothes on two days in a row...

he lived in camo all weekend since we didn't get out due to the cold yucky weather)

 

 

We traveled to Ft Worth last week on Tuesday to stay the night for Kinslee' s early Wednesday morning spinal procedure!  Kinslee had her treatment a day early last week because of Thanksgiving!  They did not have to access her port this clinic visit because she only received her spinal chemo so that was a plus!  They decided a quick blood draw would be much better than accessing her port just for blood counts.  She was so brave wearing her gas mask again last week during her spinal :) I guess she's getting used to it by now!  

 

Thanksgiving was a nice and quiet day for us!  Clay's mom and dad drove out for the day and Linda cooked some delicious turkey and dressing!  Thank you Linda for the wonderful Thanksgiving meal!  We hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving day as well! 

 

This past weekend was a little rough for us :( Kinslee had a low grade fever all day Friday and Saturday with diarrhea.  Late Saturday afternoon she woke up from her nap with a fever of 101.5 :/  and that put this momma into panic mode!  I was not looking forward to another hospital visit but the HO on-call doc at Cook said there was no need to take her in and that it was ok to just give her Tylenol because it was probably something viral and there was nothing that could be done.  I was nervous but thankful!  On Sunday she only ran a low grade fever and by yesterday she was feeling so much better and fever free :) Today she has been playing with her bubba!  It's been a while since they've played so good together!  I have been getting things ready to make the trip to Ft Worth tomorrow to stay the night for Kinslee's last spinal procedure on Thursday morning for a while!!!  Yay!!!  Next week we should have the week off from traveling and chemo treatments :) and let me just say our baby girl needs a little break!  Anytime we go to get in the car to go grab something to eat or get dressed for the day Kinslee is constantly worried and asking if we are going to the doctor or hospital :(  or asking if she has to take her medicine (she hates taking medicine).  Please pray for Kinslee to continue to have good blood counts and to be healthy so we can stay away from the hospital!  Once again we are so thankful for each of you and every prayer!!!  Thank you!!!