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What's been happening this week

This week started a 3 day round of chemo for Keira, Monday I had to take her & Cooper up to the local hospital to have blood work done to make sure we could start chemo on Tuesday, that took about an hour. Not the most fun I've ever had. LOL! Then on Tuesday we got up and dropped Coop off at Grandma Pat & Grandpa Doug's around 8 and headed to Ann Arbor for Keira's 9 am appointment. The chemo she was getting is toxic on the bladder, so she had to be very hydrated before and after. She got hooked up to fluids and we left I guess around 3:30 Monday afternoon, it was an all day thing, she came home with a backpack w/ her fluid bags & pump, she actually still has it until the morning. I had to give her Mesna (not sure on the spelling), through her iv bag, its a bladder protectant, and I had to do that every 3 hours. Wednesday & Thursday were much shorter days, we left the house around 8, and we left Ann Arbor probaby around 11:30/12ish both yesterday & today. The actual chemo only takes an hour. Some other things going on, Keira's benefit dinner is on Saturday night, I've been crocheting hats like a crazy person to put in the silent auction, that's the only thing they'll let me do to help. LOL! I've made 9 since Sunday. My hands are killing me though. And Sean and I are going to see Keith Urban tomorrow night and I'm beyond excited!! Not as excited as I was to go see New Kids on the Block & Backstreet Boys, but pretty darn close. Again, thank you all for your continued prayers & support.

Nothing new

Keira was suppose to start her 3 day round of chemo on Thursday, but her neutrophil counts were too low, Neutrophil are the white blood cells that help fight off bacterial infections, they have to be at 1000 and Keira's were at 700, so on Monday we'll have them checked again and hopefully will start chemo on Tuesday. She's feeling fine, just standard procedure not to do chemo if they're below that level. Its actually been nice to be able to sit and home and not have to do anything. On Wednesday we did take the kids to Build a Bear because Keira wanted a Smurfette and they're went nuts over them. I'll have to post a picture. Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers. We appreciate them so much!

Update time, sorry its late

Well, last week was a busy, eventful week. I started noticing that Keira's hair was starting to fall out over last weekend, so on Monday I took her to have a hair cut, I thought we'd go to a short pixie, it would be lessing shocking I thought to go in stages with the length of her hair, so we did and it looked so cute, within 2 days of that hair cut it was coming out by the handful, so I decided to shave it off on Wednesday, that way we wouldn't have hair all over the house. She had chemo on Thursday, her white blood cell counts were high enough for camping! She was super excited, so we planned our trip for Friday, just an overnight since it was the first time the kids had ever been camping. Friday morning I wake up to find my name tagged in several different posts on facebook and when I click on them I find an amazing digital scrapbook kit that my wonderful online friends had created for our family as a fundraiser. You can find that beautiful kit here Camping went amazingly well, and they even caught some fish. It was a great time.

Sorry, forgot to post on Friday

Keira is doing great, feeling good, we're going through the low counts stage though. Her white blood cells are below 500, which means no crowds, things like that. Watching for fevers, but so far so good. She is starting to loose her hair, I found a pretty good size lock of it in her bed on Friday, which really took me by surprise, simply because I didn't expect her to loose it since she didn't the last time. That tells me the chemo is working, same thing with the low counts, I feel like everything is doing what its suppose to, last year I'll be honest, I did wonder if it worked since she had such an easy time. Only time will tell, but I believe it won't be back this time. Thank you for all the prayers & positive thoughts you've been sending our way, they're working!

Update

I didn't get a chance to post an update on Friday, Keira spent last week at the hospital for her first 5 days of chemo in a row, and the last 3 days of radiation treatments. She's feeling great, she did get sick Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, but by Thursday we had it figured out and gave her more meds to hold her over and that helped. Her white blood cell counts are low, and probalby will get lower, so we're just keeping her away from crowded locations and lots of people. But she feels great, and that's all we can ask for.