Another week

This week has been full of hospital visits. But thankfully all of them have been outpatient and she has been feeling relatively well minus a few tummy issues. Monday we went to the clinic for counts check. Her platelets came back at 24k. I knew she would be needing them as she had starting showing signs of petechia, which is reds dots on her body. So down to POTC we went for the day.

Play-Doh  & Platelets

Tuesday was another day of chemo. She received another LP as well as vincristine through her iv and the peg which consists of 2 shots in her leg. I was able to get them to do all the chemo before she woke up so that she didn't have to be awaken for the shots.

Playing Doctor with Gma after getting home

Wednesday was little sisters birthday. She turned 1! We celebrated by visiting daddy at the airport during his layover to Texas.

Sisterly love

Thursday Bella had ivig. Its given over a few hours and some kids get serious reactions, so they pre-medicate with Benadryl and Tylenol. She also had tachycardia (her heart was beating too fast). This is a symptom of low hemoglobin even though her labs showed 8.5 (they transfuse at 8 or when they are symptomatic) and her platelets had also dropped from 104 to 55. Instead of keeping us around the rest of the day, we decided to come back Friday to do blood and platelets.

Zooming around in her Princess Car

Friday we were back bright and early. Finished blood and started platelets. Bella had been complaining all day of her tummy hurting. This unfortunately is a side effect from the vincristine. Well 3/4 of the way into the platelet transfusion, Bella got sick and vomited all over herself and I. We are not sure why she got sick. Could have been a reaction to the platelets or blood. But thankfully no fever or any other symptoms. They gave Zofran and Benadryl immediately where she then feel asleep from sheer exhaustion. She was fine after that and we got to go home!

Showing off her new hat from the Toy closet

This weekend has been uneventful. Daddy has been home and we have done lots of playing. We will be back in POTC for counts check and some more chemo ( IT & vincristine) on Tuesday. I misspoke last week when I said this was her last IT this phase. It actually is Tuesday. We can handle one more, then we have a break from them for a few weeks! I want to end this post by reminding everyone that September is childhood cancer awareness month. Only 3% of funding is donated to finding a cure for all 12 childhood cancers. Breast cancer alone receives 12% of this funding. Please help people become aware that our children need funding too! They are our future! Thanks again to everyone for all their support and prayers.

Daddy's Girls

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." ~Hebrews 10:23

September is the month to remember!