Mon. Jan. 16th
Hi Everyone!
Thurs. blood work showed that Grace still has not recovered well enough to start Round 4 until Monday. It's not great that her cycle has been delayed but we are thrilled to have a weekend at home. On Thurs. we did find out that her stool culture came back positive for CDiff so she has started a course of antibiotics for this while she is almost complete the antibiotics that she is currently on for her Gtube infection. These infections are unfortunate but not surprising given how agressive Grace's chemo is. Her white blood cell count drops so low that she can not even fight off her own bodies bacteria and as a result she is constantly being treated with antibiotics for something. Grace's spirits are great right now. She has been out of bed for about 10 hours a day for the last two days... This is the most she has been out of bed since her surgery in Oct. She loves being at home, surounded by her own toys and with Griffin. Unfortunately she still can't see any friends due to her comprimised immune system and her GI infection (CDiff - very contagious).
Grace's next MRI has been booked for Feb. 1 at 9:15am. This MRI is very important for us. It will tell us wether or not the 3rd "area of interest" that remained in the last MRI was malignancy or post surgical scaring. If it was malignancy we hope that it has disappeared or reduced in size. If it's post surgical scaring... that's good news too. If it's malignancy that is stagnant in size we may be looking at another surgery. We'll keep you posted.
Les
Thurs. blood work showed that Grace still has not recovered well enough to start Round 4 until Monday. It's not great that her cycle has been delayed but we are thrilled to have a weekend at home. On Thurs. we did find out that her stool culture came back positive for CDiff so she has started a course of antibiotics for this while she is almost complete the antibiotics that she is currently on for her Gtube infection. These infections are unfortunate but not surprising given how agressive Grace's chemo is. Her white blood cell count drops so low that she can not even fight off her own bodies bacteria and as a result she is constantly being treated with antibiotics for something. Grace's spirits are great right now. She has been out of bed for about 10 hours a day for the last two days... This is the most she has been out of bed since her surgery in Oct. She loves being at home, surounded by her own toys and with Griffin. Unfortunately she still can't see any friends due to her comprimised immune system and her GI infection (CDiff - very contagious).
Grace's next MRI has been booked for Feb. 1 at 9:15am. This MRI is very important for us. It will tell us wether or not the 3rd "area of interest" that remained in the last MRI was malignancy or post surgical scaring. If it was malignancy we hope that it has disappeared or reduced in size. If it's post surgical scaring... that's good news too. If it's malignancy that is stagnant in size we may be looking at another surgery. We'll keep you posted.
Les
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