Our precious 7-year old granddaughter, Sweet Stuff, was rushed to the emergency room Saturday night with a severe pain in her back. No fever - just the awful pain. The diagnosis: a kidney infection. She was given antibiotics and pain killers and sent home. Sunday morning she started running a 103 temperature and they couldn’t get it to go down. The doctor sent them to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital where they did a CT scan to rule out a kidney stone. The CT scan showed no kidney stone, but enlarged lymph nodes in Sweet Stuff’s abdomen. Tentative diagnosis: kidney infection, bladder infection and probably something viral as well.
Pray for my Sweet Stuff
Today, the urine tests they ran at Vanderbilt came back - no kidney infection and no bladder infection. Then Sweet Stuff started running a fever again, and her back still hurt. The pediatrician had them bring Sweet Stuff to his office this evening to run some blood tests. Amazingly enough at neither the ER on Saturday night nor Vanderbilt on Sunday were any blood tests done. Lots of urine tests and the CT scan - but no blood tests. As soon as the doctor saw the results of the blood test, he told my daughter to take Sweet Stuff immediately back to Vanderbilt. He called ahead to alert them. He told my daughter that he’s 90 per cent sure she has leukemia. Leukemia. What an awful word! When my son-in-law told me that word, the world seemed to stop. Not my Sweet Stuff. He called to not only tell me the news but to ask me to come immediately and get Sunshine, our 5-year old granddaughter, and let her spend the night with me and then take her to school tomorrow morning. Both he and my daughter needed to be at the hospital with Sweet Stuff.
90% means 10% not. So we are praying like crazy that Sweet Stuff will be in that 10%. Please keep them in your prayers. Sweet Stuff is at the hospital now, on an IV and undergoing more bloodwork. My daughter keeps texting me updates - mostly waiting. Sweet Stuff is tiring of the IV and wants it OUT!
I’ll update this post when we hear anything further.
My evening was busy - picking up Sunshine, picking up a pizza since that’s what she wanted for her late, late dinner. Getting her bathed and in bed. She only knows that her sister is sick and in the hospital and that’s why she’s getting to spend the night with Grandma Carol. Before Sunshine went to sleep tonight (in my bed, of course), we said prayers. Now usually Sunshine doesn’t participate in praying out loud. She’s very self-conscious. Tonight, though, it was just her and me, and I guess she felt more secure. I finished my prayer - thinking that was all for the night - when suddenly Sunshine’s sweet voice began her prayer. In her prayer she prayed that her sister would get well soon. Amen and AMEN.
Update: 11:25 P.M. Doctor said they don’t have final resuls and can’t tell them anything until they have the final results - and that’ll it’ll be awhile. They have the preliminary findings but can’t discuss them until they’ve been verified and finalized.
Later update: It is leukemia. More later.
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