November 26th - Our LAST Week 31!

So, as you can see from the title of this post, Kayla made her counts!  Whoohoo!  When we met with Dr. Hansen, the nurse came in and showed me the printout of her counts.  Kayla's neutrophils were at 1000.  Exactly what they needed to be to start the next cycle of chemo.  Yay!!!  Dr. Hansen also told me that Kayla's bone marrow test came back normal.  Yay!!!  It was a good visit, although, he also said that since she had such a long delay, she will probably have more.  Sigh.  We are just barely halfway through.

There was no school, so Lily wanted to come with us.  She and Kayla had lots of fun coloring, watching movies, eating lunch, and playing with stuff they brought along for the day.  Sadie was an angel and slept all afternoon.  And, we met a new friend who played Sequence Junior with us several times.  It was a very good day!  

Here is a picture of the girls all snuggled up in the bed with their warm blankets from the "oven."  

It did take about 20 minutes of coaxing to get Kayla to take zofran that night after dinner.  She finally took it when I told her she could take a bath with Sadie. :)

Kayla woke up at about 4:30AM and ran into our bathroom to throw up.  This is the part I had not missed during all of our weeks off.  She wasn't quite as reasonable that time when I tried to get her to take another zofran.  I think I have lost a little compassion when it comes to that, or maybe I was just tired, but I was not going to sit on the bathroom floor for the rest of the night trying to get her to take it.  I put it in her mouth and held it until it had mostly dissolved.  She was so mad and worked up that she threw up again!  Ugh.  So, I wasn't sure if any of the Zofran got in her or not, but I went ahead and let her go back to bed.

Well, a half hour later, she came running in again to throw up.  I got another Zofran pill.  After a few minutes of coaxing, I just put it in her mouth and stuck her sippy cup of water in her mouth and told her to drink until it was gone.  She was mad, but didn't throw up, and went back to bed.  Halleluja.  Right as I got her back in bed, Sadie woke up, so I fed her.  After I was done feeding her, Benson started crying.  So, I went to get him, hoping to rock him for a few minutes and convince him to go back to sleep.  But then, Nathan got up (it was about 6AM now) and when Benson saw him up, there was no getting back to sleep.  I guess that's all the sleep I was going to get.  So, there's the life of a mom for ya!  ;)

Kayla felt kind of sick all day, although she didn't throw up again.  I'm afraid that her body is wearing down a bit and the effects of the chemo are lasting longer and longer.  She has been doing better since then, but it is definitely taking longer for her to bounce back to normal after a treatment.  We just keep praying for her.  Thanks for all of your prayers.