Evie

I just wanted to let everyone know what has been happening with Evie. It all started the week of our 3 year anniversary. The 17th of June is our wedding anniversary and that whole day she had been tugging at her right ear. I did not think anything of it, because she had her 7th tooth coming in. Normally she just has the runny nose and diarrhea. That night Shane and I went to dinner and this wonderful couple in our neighborhood watched Evie for us, and when we picked her up they mentioned she had been tugging at the ear as well. So I called first thing the next morning. I now have an appointment for Friday the 19. We go the doc looks and says the ear look fine just some clear fluid. By the way this is not her regular ped. she is seeing. This doctor does not put her on antibiotics. She says if the ear is still bothering her come back Monday. Its fathers day weekend now. Of course the Ear is still bothering her. So I call Monday, we cannot get in.
Its Tuesday the 23 and Lindy is here to visit. Evie woke up at 3:30 a.m. so I thought for a bottle but she was burning up with 103.4 fever. So we rushed to the emergency room and she had a double ear infection. Thanks to the doc not putting her on the antibiotics. So I was alternating Motrin and Tylenol every 3 hours. The fever however never went away. It just kept climbimg. During the day it would go down to like 102.1 that would be the lowest but at night it would get to 104.4 so back to the er we went. Its now Thursday the 24th at 1:45 in the a.m and Lindy has traveled back to Arkansas and she is running 104.6 and we are headed to the er.
We arrive in the ER and I had given her infants Motrin before we left the house and by the time we had arrived at the hospital it had only dropped to 103.1. So we waited for 2 hours until they put us in a room. Once we finally got in a room we saw the same ER doctor who saw her on Tuesday (which is good she knew us). She looked Evie over and decided to do some blood work, and do a catheter to check and see if she had a UTI and get a sample of her mucus. The results showed dehydration and viral pneumonia. So she admitted us for the dehydration. She said that was her main concern. It was now early Friday morning at this point.
So, it is now Friday the 25th, and we have been admitted for dehydration. She was hooked up to and IV for fluids. Saturday morning they drew her blood to see if she was still dehydrated and she was not. however the blood work showed she was neutropenic. Which means, her white blood cell(wbc) count had dropped below 500. Her white blood cell count was 380 on Saturday. So they put her on Rocephin antibiotic and that made her so sick. So they came back Sunday to check her wbc and it was 250 they stopped the Rocephin and started a new antibiotic called 4 taz specifically for neutrapenia. Monday her wbc level was 90 so they drew more blood and sent it off to Utah to see what the cause may be. As of Monday they know it is a virus, they do not know what kind of virus. Tuesday was a good day her levels were 264!!! A baby or an adults wbc levels are anywhere from 1500-3000 a cancer patient is 0. Today is Wednesday Jul 1 and her wbc is 48. She is now scheduled for a bone marrow test tomorrow at 8 a.m. to find out more information. The white blood cells are made in the bone marrow so this will help out tremendously. We are praying this is still a virus and not anything worse and that it can be cured. Please help us pray.

I will continue to keep posting updates as much as I can. Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers. God is god.
we love you all,
Brittany and Shane