February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
One more stroll down memory lane…February 14, 2008
The results are in…..Dr. Rob called and we are in remission! (This does not mean she is cured or that we are finished with treamtment…we still have two years and five months to go.) This means he did not see leukemic cells in her bone marrow - the chemo is doing its job. He also said that he is starting to see new growth. That was the best news that we could have heard. We can now move into phase two of her chemotherapy which will last until mid-August.
2009…Ally has been in the maintenance phase of her treamtment since the end of August. Here’s an update in a nut-shell.
The chemo is doing its job. Ally gets chemo treatment every Saturday until August of 2010. Every eight weeks, she gets a lumbar puncture with chemo injected into her spine and a push of chemo into her port. (That is done in the hospital because she has to be sedated.) Every other time we have that done, she also has a push of another chemo (the one that makes her hair thin out). Every three weeks, she has an infusion of IVIG, the infusion of antibodies to help her fight infection. That treatment takes about 4-5 hours. She will continue to get that until spring of 2011. — All-in-all, things are going well. It is stressful to keep everything going, but we manage. Ally is doing great at school…Benjamin is talking up a storm and plays his heart out. Brad and I march on!