Visit to the Clinic

For a few days, Anya has had a little cough but yesterday afternoon she developed a fever, sore throat, heavy chest, and body aches. Esther, Isaiah, and I have also been feeling under the weather but because Anya is on chemo which can decrease her ability to fight infection, she has to make a trip to the clinic this morning for blood work and a chest x-ray. They are hoping to find that her white blood cell count is high enough to fight the virus and that there is no fluid in her lungs.

I'm not really sure what will happen if they do find fluid in her lungs, but she is worried that if they do, she will have to have more breathing treatments. When Anya was originally admitted to the hospital, she was very sick and simply terrified of everything that was happening to her. There were many things that were painful and extremely uncomfortable, but for some reason she has attached a lot of the memories of pain and discomfort to the breathing treatments. Whenever we talk about her first time in the hospital, she mentions how terrible those treatments were even though in and of themselves they aren't that terrible. But because she remembers them being so awful, we are praying that there would not be fluid in her lungs and that she wouldn't need breathing treatments.