Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sarah's Cancer: Induction - Day 8 - Clinic Day

Well most of our day was spent up at Primary Children's.  We needed to be up for an appointment with the oncology clinic at 8:30am.  We had to wake up Sarah to leave around 7:15 from my parents.  We got there on time but there was a bunch of confusion going on.  They had to take labs from Sarah again.  Her white blood cell count was .1 which means she is almost at the bottom.  Unfortunately that means the numbers will probably stay there for the month.  She got a platelet transfusion before going into surgery.  Surgery went well, except it took a long time for them to call us back.  When they did call us back, Sarah was still asleep.  She had started to take a nap before the surgery, so we think that she woke up from the anaesthesia and just went to sleep for a nap.  They nurses weren't sure but when we told her she had to wake up, she did just like it was from a nap.  After the surgery, we went back up to the clinic and she had her chemo drugs given to her.  We got back home shortly after 4pm.

We have learned a little more about what will happen week to week for induction.  It looks like she will probably be on the fortraz (the antibiotic given through IV) throughout induction.  That means that she won't be de-accessed (removing the needle from the port) through out the month.  There is a chance, that if she can get her ANC number above .5 that she can stop it, but that isn't very likely.  Also, she is scheduled to get another spinal tap next week.  There is a possibility that she won't get it if her numbers are good from the tap today.  However, the clinic told us to come next week expecting that she will get it.  That means she needs to be without food since the night before and only clear liquids until 4 hours before the surgery.  Today after her surgery, she jumped on her juice and devoured a roll and yogurt.  She was hungry.

Thanks again for all the prayers and support and offers for help.  We appreciate all that people are doing for us.

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