GREAT NEWS

We got some great news today. While we were advised the hospital stay could be 3 weeks, we were told this morning she is reacting so well that she is going to be released TOMORROW!! That's even shorter than a week from her starting chemo. To put this news in perspective, when we were told her official diagnosis, they said if everything went perfectly she could possibly be out in a week. This is even sooner than that, she's just fighting this super hard!

Yesterday after they removed her chest tube, they took an X-Ray, and over night they took a look at the film on some high resolution large screen thingy, and noticed significant reduction in her tumors. And since her labs look good also, there is no reason to keep here her after tomorrow.

She does need to get another nasty shot in her thigh Monday and then recover from the pain medication, and then we are OUT of here. We have already started to be discharged ! The Dr. let it slip to her in her exam today so Emily is really happy. (I can also personally prep myself for tomorrow's shot, since yesterday was so tough on me.)

Emily will then we in here weekly for 9 weeks (something like that) for an all day out-patient chemo treatment, which includes being "put under" for a spinal/Lumbar puncture.

Tracy, Emily and I are so excited about tomorrow. I can also say Tracy and I are getting more and more confident that our lives will get back to something closer to "normal".