Superbowl Sunday!

Super Bowl Sunday started out as a great day. In the morning we dropped off Siena at our amazing friends Carmen and Brandon's to play with their kids Max and Isla, while Sinatra stayed at home with Grandma Gloria. Then we went to downtown Huntington Beach to run the Surf City Half Marathon for the second year in a row. We both had a great race in the morning and achieved our own personal records for the 13.1 miler. As we were celebrating and enjoying a beer in the Surf City Race Beer Garden we got a call from Grandma that Sinatra had started to vomit. We immediately went home as this was the first chemo side effect we had seen this week. 

Once we got home Sinatra seemed fine. Our friends came over to watch the game and by half time Sinatra was losing steam and wanted nothing more than to cuddle. By the third quarter of the Super Blowout aka Super Bowl, deep mid-cuddle with mommy, she started getting very warm so we took her temperature. Sinatra's temperature started at 100.5 which means we had to start timing it and if it was still between 100.5-101.4 in one hour we would have to call the Oncologist.  We checked the temperature 35 minutes later and it hit 101.6 which means an immediate call to the Oncologist (101.5 and above means pack your bags, start the car and get to the ER). As we suspected, because they had warned us about this, we needed to take Sinatra to the ER immediately to be seen. Within minutes our friends were helping us clean up, Link was getting instructions from the doctor and Jenn was packing to get ready for an overnight at the hospital. 

Sinatra vomited again for the second time today as we waited in line to register in the ER and we were quickly taken into an isolation room (closed off from the general population) where they take oncology patients, since the ER is a germ fest. We waited in the exam room for more than 3 hours and during that time were seen by several nurses and a doctor. By 11:00 pm we were finally admitted to the Oncology floor and Sinatra was beyond exhausted and grumpy after all of the poking and prodding. Who would have thought we would be back on the cancer floor so soon after just having left barely one month ago. After arriving into our fifth floor room Sinatra was examined several more times and was hooked up to receive oxygen, IV for fluids, and some antibiotics. By 5:00 am this morning her fever had broken and we finally started to get some sleep.

We spent the rest of the day in our isolated room with doctors and nurses coming in and out in full protective masks and robes checking her vitals (imagine the scene from ET when the government agents quarantined the house after they found ET and Eliot in the creek ). They ran another VRP and found that Sinatra has a virus called respiratory syncytial virus infection, usually called RSV, which has a lot of the same symptoms as a bad cold.  Like a cold, RSV is very common and very contagious. Most children have had it at least once by age 2. RSV is usually not something to worry about, however it can lead to pneumonia or other serious problems in some people, especially babies. Like a cold virus, RSV attacks your nose, eyes, throat, and lungs and is spread when you cough, sneeze and share food or drinks.There are many kinds of RSV, so your body never becomes immune to it. You can get it again and again throughout your life, sometimes during the same season.

Sinatra is now on antibiotics and we will be hanging out at the hospital for a few days until she is recovered. This also means that our treatment will be paused until the doctor feels that Sinatra is healthy enough to begin chemo again.