Daniel's second visit to oncology/ hematology clinic

Hi All, Our second day at the clinic went fairly well. Daniel's hemoglobin were at 90! On Wednesday Daniel's hemoglobin were 69; hence he received a blood transfusion, in the in the emergency department on Wednesday night they were 93. The Doctors are not to worried about the drop form 93 to 90. They had told us on Wednesday during the transfusion that they would expect his haemoglobin to be at 90 on Friday. The not so great news is that many of the virus for which Daniel's blood was checked for are showing negative meaning he does not have them. (We are still waiting for one result to come in but it probably will come back negative too.) this is not so good news because if it was a virus causing all of this, the nightmare would be over with at the most in a few weeks. Daniel still had a fever yesterday at the clinic. As this was day 5 of fever he had a chest x-ray (which he hated), and urine sample taken (which he also hated). The chest x-ray was clear and the urine sample will take 24 hours to come back. Daniel still has "spells" of breathing fast but the fever has given us a brake. He cough at night chocking on his saliva.... he has a sore throat... sounds like laryngitis. They considered admitting him yesterday. However, looking at how much Daniel dislike being at the hospital and how he in enjoying coming home and taking into consideration some other factors such as how close we live to the the hospital. We concluded to not have Daniel admitted at this time. If we are worried about his condition we are to take him back to the emergency department and have the telephone number for the on-call hematologist/ oncologist. We will be seen again in the clinic on Thursday, April 2nd. This will be an all day affair. This is the day on which he will have his bone marrow tested for nasty things like leukemia. This morning Daniel enjoyed playing outside and just being a typical 20 month old with giggles and tantrums. Esther seems to be better. The antibiotics seem to be doing their job. She has not yet had another seizure. She just had one on the 10th of March (late at night) and on March 24th (given Daddy an ambulance ride as a birthday present!).Thank you for all your prayers and support. God is totally helping us through these challenging times and making the system work for us.Love,Roxanne