"On the upside, I'm not bleeding in my head..."

Elizabeth's resting on her bed in the darkness. We're working on keeping Gatorade down and, along with it, these under-achieving anti-nausea pills. You know your illnesses are compounding, when your goal is to steady your stomach enough so you can take Tylenol to get rid of your headache...THEN you can work on the rest of the meds you're on.

But at least she's not bleeding in her head.

Mom and Elizabeth had to return to the Westchester today because Elizabeth's lab results from yesterday indicated low platelets again. But when she went for her transfusion this morning, she already had the makings of a primo-migraine; it only got worse throughout the day. As many of you know, the Bauerlein headache reputation is one for severe light, sound, smell and motion sensitivity, not to mention the overwhelming urge to vomit. With Elizabeth, the overwhelming urge to vomit has become a daily visiter this week, but today was especially severe. Because of this and the lack of clotting (due to a low platelet count) the medical staff was concerned that she may have burst a blood vessel in her head which would be unable to clot. Obviously this could be very dangerous. DFCI and Westchester decided to run a CT scan to rule out bleeding in the head. It was ruled out.

So no matter how crappy she feels right now, the mantra is, "at least she's not bleeding in her head."

Elizabeth's next medical stop is a follow up at DFCI in Boston on Monday.

I just tried to read her this blog entry and found that she seems to be napping, for which we're very thankful. Prayers are now being accepted centering on keeping liquids/food down, keeping her slight fever in check and most of all, taking the nausea away. We're also offering a prayer of thanks for no bleeding in the head. So remember to say a little prayer!