Update:
Lauren was up at CHLA on Tuesday for a scheduled appointment, where they lowered her prednisone 2.5mg, she is now on 22.5 mg a day.  And while her counts looked good, she has another issue. It seems she gets a new problem every other month.  Para flu in July, pancreatitis in August, auto-immune problem in Oct. Ant this month? Thrush, which is basically a yeast infection in the mouth.  It's pretty disgusting looking.  Parts of her tongue is covered in white blotches.  Thrush is common in infants and children, people on steroids, and cancer patients, so it's not surprising that Lauren caught it.  She does take medicine to prevent it, but I guess with the increase dosage of Prednisone, the preventive medicine wasn't enough.  She now has to swish some medicine around her mouth 4x a day.  Just another medicine added to her long list of daily meds.  We should have caught it earlier, she did mention that her tongue hurt over a week ago, but it wasn't a constant complaint, so we didn't think it was anything.  Bad parents.  But usually we watch her closely for slurred speech, balance issues and headaches.  The doctor think a lot of these past issues are steroid related, but we have to slowly wean her off of the stuff.