Abigail's Summer of outpatient Chemotherapy Treatments

just a quick update today, abbi is doing well. she has her next chemo sept 6th. if she does well and her blood counts don't drop too low, which they didn't this time, she may be able to go back to school. she is excited for this. she will be on meds to prevent sickness and infection. but this is promising news, and we are very happy. she is an amazing little girl. god is great! Mom

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Scorpions - Wind Of Change

day 3 of chemo and she did get sick this morning but that was it, so far so good. she will be able to go home sunday and when she comes back on sept 6th she will be outpatient for the 5 days. she will recieve the chemo in clinic every day for 5 days then home again till next time, schedule, every 28 days from first day of each cycle, so first day was on the 10th this time 28 days from now will be the 6th of sept, and so on. maybe some cycles could be at home, would be alot easier on us. there is also a child down the hall who needs prayer also, his transplant did not take and they are running out of options for treatment due to his previous treatment for leukemia that has damaged his liver. so goodnight everyone

Abigail starts chemo, Azacitidine, today.

Hi everyone, Abigail starts chemo, azacitidine, today. in just a few hours. she had to have her broviac line removed due to an infection 2 weeks ago, but that made her happy. so in between chemo the last week we went camping and swam, swam, swam! then she was readmitted to UCSF for the chemo that will be administered for 5 days every 28 days for at least 6 months. then they will check her bone marrow to see when she goes into remission again and then give her a large amount of donor cells to hopefully induce GVHD. so yesterday she did have to have a picc line inserted into her upper left arm, kind of like an IV, to give the chemo. she is down in the play room now and had spent most of the day in the school room learning about coral reefs and the continents. as long as she does not have bad side effects she will be able to go home next week after her bmt appointment with her transplant docs. only time will tell how this will effect her, one thing i know is it will work. it has to

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