Feb 2

I can't believe it's February already. It has been just shy of 11 months since Emily's diagnosis. It also means we are just 13 months away from treatment being over.

Emily recovered very quickly from her surgery last week. On Friday she even asked if she could go to school because she missed her friends. She was in school less than 24 hours after surgery for which she was heavily sedated. Simply amazing that she was able, and almost more amazing to me that she wanted to go. I am glad she wanted to though, and we had checked it with the surgeons the day before to make sure it would be ok. She only lasted 2 hours, but that was more than enough in my book.

Over the weekend we went on a nice hike, and had a picnic with our friends the Woodmans. They had not seen Emily since just weeks after her diagnosis, when she was very pale, couldn't walk, and was very puffy from the high dose Prednisone. They were not sure what to expect when they showed up, and were in complete amazement at how well Emily was doing. She was running around full of energy just like the Emily they have always known. They were really blown away. Emily did OK on the hike, she got a little bored so she and Katina lagged behind, and Haley actually out hiked all 3 older kids. After the hike we all went to a movie. Emily had so much fun playing with her friend Owen, they have known each other since they were infants, Tracy and Katina were in the same Mommy's group. Above is a picture of Emily and Owen when they were around 3 years old, and then the second one was this past weekend.

This week we have labs, and hopefully that is it. Emily has a scratchy throat but we think it's from the breathing tube in surgery. We finished this months Prednisone yesterday, Emily did well on it this month, only getting a little out of sorts on the last day of the monthly course.