Friday

Today Emily had her ultra sound, and unfortunately the blood clot is still there. I was really surprised and disappointed to find that out. It is smaller so some progress has been made, I am unclear on how much progress as I don't have that much info from the Hematologist so I will follow up on Monday. She will continue on her Lovenox therapy but they have lowered the dose, because it might start to interfere with her chemotherapy. There will also be days when her blood counts are low that we can't even give her the therapy at all. Emily is happy that she only needs one shot per day, and I guess that's something to get excited about. This illustrates one of the things that is hard about being a parent of a sick child. It is nice they are not aware of their risks and how sick they are, but as a parent you do know, and have to put on a good face to your child.

She is also neutropenic again, which we'd expect to see in this phase of chemo now that we have resumed therapy.

The following was dictated by Emily.

"I am feeling great today. I had an ultra sound and a blood draw. My Mommy picked up saline flushes and gloves. This weekend I am going to go swimming because my port will be de-accessed. I am going to go swimming at a pool on my Grandma's road because I can't swim in a public pool but I can swim in my Grandma's neighbors pool. I am done, goodbye."