Where do the days go?

Oh, some of these days go by so quickly, others take forever.  When you are sitting at a clinic or down at the hospital it seems to do both at the same time.  We took Aly down for her weekly check up today.  It brought about a blood transfusion as expected, but for some unknown reason she was really dehydrated today.  She also was complaining of stomach pain, similar to what she had after the last chemo round, and she was running a fever.  Last time it involved the visits to the E.R.  This time it involved a wheel chair ride from the clinic over to the hospital and being admitted for the night.  They want to observe and make sure nothing serious is going on.  They are running blood cultures again and started another course of antibiotics just in case.  They are under the impression that the stomach pain may just be a reaction related to her counts being low.  We were told that when counts are low sores may develop and Aly may just get them in the stomach region.  She did have some redness around her stomach tube as well.  So basically, as usual we just don't know.
All I know is it makes for a long day.  My dad joined me on this adventure and we were at the clinic from 12:15 until 4.  Then it was on to the hospital until Kevin, Tom and my mom came down about 7pm.  Kevin is spending the night with Aly and the rest of us stopped for dinner on the way home and arrived home at 9:30pm.  By the time we left Aly was looking and feeling much better.  She had completed the blood transfusion, was given IV fluids and a received a "stress" dose of hydrocortisone which is a steroid that just gives a boost when she is feeling awful.  I think we would've been better off getting her that transfusion on Monday or Tuesday.  She was really sluggish yesterday.  I think we've been lucky with the prior rounds and getting her in at the right times.  These last two rounds I think our appointments were scheduled a little too late and her counts were way too low.  We know what to look for now that she has one round to go!
Long, long days...