monthly check up-- April

Today was our monthly check up and chemo appointment. We made it another month with no complications in between. No calls to the on-call doc, home health nurses, port accesses and no fevers! We are starting to breathe a little more around here and dig out of our holes. Presley's ANC is still high this month so the doc increased her chemo slightly. Hoping to not bottom out those numbers with too much chemo. Her blood work looks good and its always a nice relief to see her counts and reasure that the leukemia is still in remission. The chances of relapse while in treatment is not high but always a lingering fear.

WBC: 4.7
HGB: 11.8
HCT 35.1
PLTS: 219
ANC 3,700

Those are the numbers that mean so much to us. White blood, red blood, platelets and her neutrophil count.

We played with the nurses while Presley got her IV chemo and an hour infusion of antibiotics. We also played with Ashyton, one of Presley's cancer buddies. That always makes coming to clinic a little easier.Presley cried hard today while getting her port de-accessed. Its been too long and I'm sure she wonders in her little mind when she will be done with this.

We are down to 13 more months. Who's counting? The end of May 2015 Presley will be done with treatment and get her port removed. We hope and pray no complications arise and it changes these plans.

It was my turn for the needle today. We are part of a study and they needed my blood today. Huntsman Cancer Institute is doing DNA sequencing to help find a cure. We feel strong about helping and letting them use our info for future generations. Presley was not too interested in watching me get the stick today. But asked a lot of questions when it was all done.