February 25, 2009

Hi everyone!

I thought I would take a minute and update the blog. Alex is doing great! She is on her Spring break right now and is finally able to hang out with a few friends. It is so awesome to see her joining the real world. I have posted a new picture of Alex with NO hat! She has so much hair. Doesn't she look awesome!

She had a clinic visit on the 12th. Everything went well and her counts had finally came back up. She had spent a few weeks with VERY low white counts. I hated sending her to school with such low counts, but luckily she did OK. It is not a great time of year with everything going around. Anyway... things went well at the clinic and is now back on full doses of all her meds. Yippee! Now, hopefully, they can get all her stuff dialed in so she doesn't lose her counts again. I really don't want to be so concerned with taking this trip coming up. The doctor doesn't seem to be at all concerned about it, so?? Not so easy for me.

I hope everyone is doing well. Things here are so much better than last year, so I have no complaints.

I will update when I have some more information.

January 28, 2009 - Back to School

Hi everyone! I have been gone awhile and thought that I better update.

Things have been going pretty well. Alex is hard at it with school and all. I think it tires her out quite a bit but I can tell she is happy. I will update her "back to school" picture as soon as I am done updating. She has her hat on so you can't tell how much hair she has!!! It is coming in like crazy. I hope she will let me take a picture of her with her hat off because you guys won't believe it! Totally different than the other times her hair has come back in over the last year. It is THICK!!

Well... she had clinic 2 weeks ago Friday with her regular monthly IV chemo and she also had a lumbar proceedure with the Methotrexate. She did really really well with everything. Her blood counts were TOO good, so they increased her oral meds again. I told them that she is still sick all the time (nausea wise) and so they are tweaking a different medication and hopefully that will be a little easier on her.

So, that is about all that is going on here. Alex is back to school 4 days a week and I miss her terribly! It is such a great thing she is back though. I will update as soon as I have more information.

Thanks for tuning in everyone!