This morning, I received word that Baby S is being discharged from the hospital … without her chemotherapy treatment. This is *not* good news folks. Her counts are far too low for them to risk putting her through another round.
Instead, she is being sent home for a week, and will have to receive a shot every day that will *hopefully* help build her immune system. She’ll be checked back into the hospital next week, and hopefully her counts (white blood cell, and some others I’m not sure of) will be high enough that she can endure another round of chemo.
As I explained before, this means that we’re putting off her surgery for at least one more week too. Every day that goes by without her surgery is another day that the cancer could metastasize (spread to another part of her body & latch on). We are encouraged that the initial three week round of chemotherapy did shrink the tumor slightly - that means that the chemo is working. We are very frustrated, however, at all the setbacks poor Baby S has endured.
So please, keep her in your hearts and minds, and help us help her get stronger.
xo
