Not what we were expecting...

We took Sheridan to the ER last Saturday afternoon because she spiked a fever after having a cold all week. She did not have an ear infection or pneumonia so they did some blood work to rule out any other infections. They actually discharged us after the first round of lab results came back...but we were called back before we had gotten on 270.

Her blood counts were off so they wanted us to come back, draw a new sample and see what that showed. After a couple of hours they came back and said that they were suspicious of leukemia and wanted to run some more tests to rule it out.

So...we were transfered by ambulance to Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) overnight. Because it was the weekend we were pretty much just hanging out on Sunday and then Monday morning they drew blood to send to the lab.

Monday afternoon they confirmed that Sheridan does infact have ALL--Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. In a matter of minutes we went from 2 doctors in the room to about 10 people in the room. They gave us a binder and got to work explaining what we were in for. It was very overwhelming. We are slowly becoming experts in something we never wanted to know anything about.

We have an excellent team of doctors, including her pediatrician who knows her best and has been talking with us daily. Because we are at CNMC all of her specialists are available to consult as needed and several already have. They are all confident that she will handle this challenge with the same strength that she has handled past challenges--this will be another obstacle she has overcome!