Finally home!

Tuesday night after we got admitted and into our room we expected to have a great night since the IV pain medications usually do wonders with Tatum's pain. Well things didn't go as planned and during the night she got a fever of 102.6 and the morphine just wasn't cutting the pain enough to get her to sleep good so needless to say I also didn't sleep. On Wednesday morning the doctors added another pain medication to help get Tatum comfortable and it worked great. She also was started on IV antibiotics because of the high fever that wouldn't go down. When we learned on Wednesday that Tate's hemoglobin had dropped around 7 they decided that she needed a blood transfusion. That seemed to help her pain quite a bit and put her in a good mood that evening. We have never been so happy to hear her being silly and actually being more like herself. The blood transfusion seemed to be all she needed to make the turn in the right direction. Her hemoglobin came up closer to normal and there wasn't as much need for pain medication through the night. Today counts were up even more and we decided this morning to try and switch to oral pain medication to see if we could make the transition and maybe get to come home. I knew this morning when she told me that she wanted to go play things were looking up. As the day went on she did fine on the oral medication and we got to come home this evening. What a great feeling to be home. So far we have had to stay right on top of the medication and will probably try to go longer between doses tomorrow if she can tolerate it.