Monday, Nov. 26, 2007

Another day of chemo down, three more to go. We arrived early today to have Hannah's blood drawn for the adrenal test, however they didn't get around to drawing it until 10:30am. Unfortunately, the cortisole levels peak around late morning and we want a reading at their lowest to be able to get an accurate reading of how much cortisole her body is producing. The test results will most likely be ambiguous, but we'll see. If they show low anyway, then we know there is a real problem, when they are supposed to be at their highest. Most likely, we will need to have it done again. Next time I'll do it myself if they can't get it together. The results should be back by Wednesday or Thursday.

Hannah had a good day today, slept during most of it and we got home about 5pm. I must say she still HATES to be accessed, today was very bad for her. It could be that she was sleeping when they finally got around to doing it, and I had to wake her up and carry her over to be tortured.

She is now happily telling everyone that we only have "three more Mondays and then we're done with chemo!" She even told the security guard today when we were waiting for our car. She has some BIG plans for after chemo, that's for sure. She is still trying to figure out a way to get to Grandma's house for Christmas. I broke the news this weekend that it really wasn't possible, even though we're done with chemo, her counts will be very low for the holidays. We don't care though (I can say that now, just as long as we're not in the hospital) as long as we didn't have any more delays. Hannah also has some very ambitious plans for making something for everyone at clinic for the holidays. I was thinking cookies, but she is thinking cookies AND ______ AND _______, can't give away the secret yet.

She was very talkative tonight on the way home, ate lunch on the way home and also a good dinner. After dinner she complained of a headache. I was then getting her ready for bed, figuring she wouldn't do any reading for school, but she wanted to read a book, so we did. She read for 55 minutes! On and on, she wanted to finish the book! Unbelievable for a kid who just had chemo pumped into her little body today. She went to bed fine, but was crying a short time later because her head hurt pretty badly and she felt sick. I gave her some more anti-nausea meds, hoping it works on her head also. We'll see how she feels for school tomorrow.

A bit blurry, but you get the idea!

xoxo Kim