Callen Update

So I've had alot of people ask me how Callen has been doing. It has been pretty up and down lately. She had another week's battle with fevers and her Neutrophil (white blood cell) count went down again after going up slightly. We made the trip to San Antonio again, they had results back from one of her previous labs that said she had been negative for Roseola, so basically the Dr's are back to where we started, which is having absolutely no idea what is causing her to have no white blood cells. They basically told me it could be anything from a number of various autoimmune dissorder she was born with, chronic benign neutropenia which she has a 50% chance of outgrowing by age 5, her body could be attacking itself, all the way up to worst case it could be some form of cancer.

SO... they took as much blood as they could afford to take from her and sent it off to someplace in California for more labs. They said most likely since it could be so many things most likely we won't find anything out on the first round of labs and there will be many more rounds of bloodwork before we get any answers. We're just hoping to have some kind of clue which direction to even take for the next labs. Once the fevers go away and Callen starts eating and sleeping again she really looks and acts perfectly healthy. So right now she is doing well, she's my happy girl. Since she is so severely neutropenic (low neutrophils) we just have to be super cautious about where we take her and what kind of germs she might pick up while she's there. So we're slowly starting to actually get her out of the house, we took her to a couple graduation events and we took her to church. I've never been one of those germaphobic people that washes my hands nonstop but I think i've been keeping the hand sanitizer companies in business lately!!

Anyway, that is what's going on in the life of Callen, hopefully we'll get this all figured out soon so she can always be my happy girl.