May 14th and 15th Update

Today, Friday, is the 4th day of this 3rd round of chemo. This week has been much easier on her than the past treatments. A little fatigue, a little diarrhea but not nearly like the 1st.

The biggest problem this week has been the spinal punctures. They are like an epidural but spinal fluid is drawn out and chemo injected. Wednesday they had a very hard time finding the right spot and had to stick her twice. Today the PA tried this morning and made 2 sticks and was not comfortable doing it. It was rescheduled for this afternoon. Michael another PA came in at 4 pm and did it. This time he hit a nerve and the pain was very intense with shooting pain down the left leg into the foot. It slowly went away while he put the chemo in but did the same thing when he removed the needle. Now she lays flat and sleeps for 2 hrs after this to prevent headaches.

Now I am afraid she will fear having the spinals after this happened. She has to have 2 each round to prevent the cancer from going into her spinal fluid and brain so they are not an option.

I believe that the enormous amount of prayers going up for her are the reason she has had a good week.

We should get to come home tomorrow afternoon barring no unexpected things.

We will come back to the clinic on Tue and Fri of next week for blood tests, waiting for her counts to fall again, then we come back here to get transfusions and plasma. Same cycle each time.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and we thank you all so much for caring and for praying for her so much.

Sam