Oh Croup....

Sorry I haven’t had a chance to make a lot of calls in the last 24 hours so please accept my apologies for not contacting more people personally.  Leave it to the Burt family to bring a little excitement to what was supposed to be a normal week.  

Tired of waiting for test results

We started out Tuesday night with Max developing a fever and we have strict orders to call the oncall oncologist and come straight in to the ER, so we did. After performing lots of tests to try to figure out what was wrong I finally asked to go home so that we could rest a little bit while we were waiting for test results and were able to get home Tuesday afternoon.      Then we got several calls from the hospital and oncologists letting us know they isolated the parainfluenza virus which is the virus that causes croup.  Max didn’t seem to have any normal croup symptoms because of the steroids he is on.  So far no other symptoms, he is up playing and feeling better all ready.  We will be watching him closely and meeting with his team again on Monday unless anything changes..