2 more weeks of chemo to complete cycle one

July 13th, 2015

We have been home for a couple weeks and hiding from the world and the germs they carry.  After being home for a couple of weeks we are gun shy from going to any event or having Audrey exposed to anything that might put us back into the hospital.   We would rather be stuck in our house than in the hospital.   We are coming up to one of our longest weeks of outpatient chemo and not looking forward to it.   We have another week of Irinotecan and Vincristine this week.  That means we have 25 hours of inpatient chemo this week and of course I am traveling again for work.   As it would be a very long week with Cole, Audrey and Melissa all in the same room we lean on some friends for him to hang out with which seems to help a bit.   Melissa takes the first 3 days of the week while I am traveling.   When I get home Melissa has had a long few days balancing the long days at the clinic so offer to take Thursday and Friday.   When we go in on Thursday Audrey is very tired and actually sleeps through most of the treatment which allows me to get caught up on work emails and work most of the time.  Friday she was back to her normal crazy self and I balanced watching Frozen and getting emails done while Audrey was getting her treatment.   We made it through the week with Audrey feeling okay but very tired.

Monday we went back into clinic for our 15 minute of Vincristine which takes about 2 hours with the checkups, blood checks and ordering the chemo from the pharmacy.  The great news is her white counts were the highest we have seen them since we checked them before the first chemo treatment.  Next week we go back in for another MRI to see where we are and what the next 3 months of treatment will look like.  It will decide at what point we start our radiation in Houston.  Looking forward to good results and hearing everything is on schedule.

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