Yet another prayer answered...

We are actually out. Out of the hospital. A mere 36 hour stay. Olivia's getting better each time.
After a long 18 hours waiting for lab results, we were pleased to hear that Olivia has something called Transient Erythroblastopenia of Children (TEC). This is awesome! TEC is a condition where the bone marrow stops producing red blood cells. Olivia's levels were at .1% - her bone marrow was producing close to zero new red blood cells. This can be sparked by a child having a viral infection within a few months prior to the onset of TEC (explained by her RSV in December). It has also been linked to a response to Fifth's Disease, so they ran a test for that, but the results won't be in for a few days. It should correct itself in a month or two. We will come over to St. Jude's on Wednesdays for the next month to check all her levels and make sure she is starting to recover. If not, in about a month, Olivia will have a bone marrow biopsy to find more clues as to why her bone marrow isn't doing it's job. This sounds very unpleasant, but we'll cross that bridge it we come to it.
This is obviously great news! As of this morning, all of her labs showed no signs of cancer!
So, she received another blood transfusion today. She was pretty pale yesterday since she had no red blood cells, low hemoglobin, etc..., but tonight she is as red as a tomato! We were able to be discharged at 8:00 pm after a long day of waiting. Thank you so much for all of the phone calls, thoughts, and prayers!

On another great note - there's a new Chatterton in Pennsylvania today! Zac's cousin Ryan and his wife, Judy, and big brother, Christian, welcomed McKenna Grace into the world this morning!

I'll post more tomorrow as I'm sure I'll remember more details on Olivia!