Side Effects

Greta came home from the hospital last Wednesday night after having her IVIG treatment. She was given a drug to help counteract the migraine like headaches and nausea the IVIG can cause. Sunday evening about 24 hours after her last dose of medicine, Greta started complaining that she had a boo boo and was holding her head. She started trying to cover her head with her blankie and kept laying down. Moments later she started vomiting. After an hour or so and 3-4 occasions of vomiting, we called the hospital.

The doctor put Greta back on her medication, the tough part was keeping it down for it to start working. We think she stopped after about the 12-15th episode or so. She slowly started to act like herself again and by 10:30 she seemed to be feeling better and went to bed. As always any time anything out of the ordinary happens, we start thinking the worst. It's hard to watch her in so much pain and feeling helpless to stop it. Tomorrow Greta has her blood draw again to check her levels. Hopefully her platelets continue to hold steady after the IVIG treatments. We'll keep you posted tomorrow on her results.

Thanks again for taking this journey with us and supporting us as we experience this new and uncertain world of childhood cancer. Please continue to pray that Greta stays healthy!

Love,
The Betz Family