Happy Thursday Everyone!
Allyson had her port put in this morning, and everything went
very smoothly. The port will make it much easier to administer drugs and take
blood throughout the course of treatment because it saves you from being poked
with needles. Allyson doesn’t have very good veins, so she would be hurting
badly if they tried it the old fashioned way. It is much smaller than Ed’s port
was (just under her left collar bone), so we were happy to see that. You won’t
even be able to tell that she has a port when she has her clothes on…so that is
awesome!
The next appointments are scheduled for Monday, where she goes
in for one more biopsy (to collect more samples for clinical trial reasons),
and then she heads over to the oncology office for what they call “teach”. This
is where they will educate us on all of the different drugs that they will be
administering throughout the chemo sessions (6 rounds of chemo administered
every 3 weeks). Then we just hope that they will be able to fully start
treatment Tuesday or Wednesday with her first round. This all depends on
Germany getting back to the oncologist’s office and giving full approval for
her to begin. If it doesn’t start next week, it will be the following Monday.
Grayson is scheduled for a tonsillectomy next Wednesday because
the kid is constantly sick and his adenoids are the size of golf balls. The
doctor seems to think that this will be a major improvement in his quality of
life after it done, so we don’t want to put it off any longer. Should be a fun
Thanksgiving! J
Megan and Linda get in this afternoon, so it will be nice to
have some help as we work through all of this and still keep some sense of
normalcy for the kids.
Love you all, and I will let you know when I get the blog back
up and running. If I ever have anything important to post that I think you need
to see ASAP I will definitely send an email out and point you in that direction
so you aren’t kept in the dark.
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