Courtney goes home - Jordan does not

Week of Feb 20, 2006

This week was pretty much the same as last week. Jordan continued to run a fever and they added a second antibiotic to combat the fever. Her counts are still low to non-existent. She cannot leave the hospital unless she is fever free and has a count of at least 500.

Roger brought Madison and Noah to see Jordan on Saturday. They stayed for a couple of hours and painted a poster board with Jordan.

We also shaved Jordan’s hair off this weekend. It was matted and falling out so she decided she wanted to shave it off. Having it fall out by itself caused her scalp to be very sensitive. I’m amazed at how much her scalp actually hurt during the process of her hair falling out.

Her Geometry teacher from the Homebound program came by on Saturday afternoon.
None of us really like him much. He was very pushy and kept butting in while she was trying to work through a problem. She was quite aggravated at his method of teaching.


She received a transfusion this Saturday of 2 units of blood because her red blood cells were low. Lack of red blood cells causes anemia, which makes her tired, moody and gives her a headache.

The hardest part of the weekend came when Courtney got to go home. This upset Jordan quite a bit because Courtney is someone she can talk with and now she’s not here. Courtney gets to do the rest of her Chemotherapy as an out patient through the clinic, as long as she doesn’t run a fever. Jordan understands that Courtney has a diagnosis that is completely different and therefore the treatment is different, but it was still hard for her to see Courtney go home after a week, when Jordan has been her for almost a month.

We also found out on Saturday that Danny and Jason are not a match for Jordan’s bone marrow. My blood is still being tested. I’m hoping mine matches, so she can at least receive a related match.