I'm a fabulous mother, have I said that before?

So, I used to joke a lot on here about being Mother of the year, hands down. Most of you probably didn't read this blog that far back, but trust me, things happen around here that put me up for Mother of the year a LOT (insert sarcasm, in case you don't know me).
This week is just another example...you know my daily struggles with white blood cells, and how mine don't like to stay alive very long, right? Well, this week has been another challenge and my wbc count is currently 1.4 that's great when I was out in public all day for 3 out of the last 4 days. As if that wasn't bad enough, the little one came down with a cold on Monday afternoon and it's gotten progressively worse since then. I thought she was faking on Monday (yep, great mothering skills at work) and just downplayed it. By Monday night I realized she wasn't giving up the "act" and must be really sick. She had a sore throat, mild cough and occasional sneezing. Well, my mom & dad kept her last night since her poor sickly mother can't be around her own baby when she's sick :( and the hubby took her to the doctor this morning. The doctor thinks she does just have some form of cold, but gave her an antibiotic anyway because she has some fluid on her ears. Poor thing feels terrible and her own Mommy can't even be in the same house as her, much less take care of her. Thankfully the prescription should make her non-contagious by tomorrow so I'll get to be around my little turkey for Thanksgiving. She's been so looking forward to helping me cook, but I know she can help Gammy out in the kitchen instead if she feels up to it.
The saddest part is that she was going to get to visit with her 3 little cousins from Florida that she hasn't seen in over a year tonight, and is SO pitifully sad that she can't see them. She's been talking about "playing with my cousins" and counting down the days for about 5 days and Daddy had to break her heart with the news this morning. It's so sad!
Hopefully lots of movies, ice cream, popsicles and snuggles from Gammy & G-Daddy will make her feel better.

I had an appointment with my Oncologist as well this morning, and other than the wbc never-ending battle, everything else is good. We discussed spreading the treatments out 3 weeks instead of every 2 weeks to give the bone marrow time to produce white blood cells on it's own instead of constantly going down and having to boost it with meds. She says usually people my age don't have this much trouble with counts being low, what's wrong with my stinkin' bones?

Hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving, I promise pics in my next post!