Update

Liz did well in the OR and we got home around 5:00pm. For some reason, her BMA and biopsy site is higher on her back than normal and in the middle rather than right over a hip as she's had before. Being in the middle made it difficult for her to get comfortable and she has had much more pain than she had with her other marrow aspirations. I finally called the pediatrician last night and asked if I could give her codeine. The poor kid is kind of a mess of holes. Both arms from the PICC, her back from the bone marrow procedures, and even the simple IV bandage.... which is nothing really, but the fact that she had To have an IV threw her over the edge of tolerance yesterday. When you have a PICC, medications and blood draws are done through it, so you don't need to get poked and have IV's. But because her new PICC line is threaded through the same major vein that her old line was in, she had to have an IV placed yesterday so that her old PICC could be pulled. Confusing? In short, she was super angry and felt lied to when the team told her she'd need an IV for yesterday's OR trip. Liz is just such a hard stick and starting a line is not easy due to her veins. Luckily, nurse Shannon was on and somehow she always gets Liz on the first or second try. Anyway, it was a long night of pain for our brave, brave girl and now it will be a long, long four days of waiting for us to find out the results of the biopsy and what her marrow looks like. Waiting is so difficult and though I know what's done is done, and worrying won't change what we will hear, wondering is something I cannot control. Please continue to pray for our Elizabeth. -unable to view to edit-