December 17th - Chemo Treatment # 14

This ended up being a really long weekend for all of us. Peyton had treatment on Friday and then started feeling a bit sick late Friday evening. He woke us up at 5:00am Saturday saying he was sick. We gave him more nausea medicine and shortly after that he started running a fever. We were planning on heading back to Alamosa, but decided to stay in Denver and see how he was feeling. His fever continued to rise and we ended up calling the doctor. Due to his fever being over 101 degrees, and it being a Saturday, we had to take him into the emergency room at Children's Hospital. We didn't have to wait long to see a doctor, but we had to wait for all the blood work to be done to make sure he didn't have an infection near the area where his mediport is. Thankfully, there wasn't an infection and the doctors just gave him a shot of antibiotics. A few hours later we were able to head back home. We decided to wait until the next day to return home to Alamosa. Peyton had another high fever in the middle of the night, but by the next day he was much much better. We stopped by the North Pole on the way home and visited Santa's workshops and rode some really fun rides! It was great for Peyton to finally think about something fun and get to do something outside of a hospital. This really got him excited for Christmas.