Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007

One day after chemo, Hannah spent the day at home today. After not feeling well last night, I tried to wake her this morning and she was really having a hard time. I finally decided to let her sleep and go to school a bit late, because she usually wakes by 8 or 8:30am or so. She slept until 10:30, then looked pretty rough. She had dark circles under her eyes, wasn't eating anything and just seemed very lethargic. By mid afternoon she was complaining that her stomach felt "funny", more nauseous than painful. I gave her some more anti-nausea meds at 4pm, then again before bedtime. Hopefully that will help for tomorrow.

I am surprised that this chemo has hit her so hard so early. The first two rounds of this medicine was easier than the others. The first time Hannah had this medicine, she had absolutely no reaction, and her blood counts stayed up. The second time (which was round 6) she also handled it well, by the 4th dose at the end of the round, her counts were quite low and she needed a platelet transfusion. But, through all of that, she didn't experience much other than tiredness. Llike they told us, each round is harder on the body, and this being the last, I guess even the easiest chemo affects her quite a bit. I'm a bit nervous because this is the first of four days of chemo, I'm sure it will get progressively harder.

I hope she is feeling better by Saturday, because we have been invited to go to LaGuardia airport on Saturday for a trip to the North Pole! We board the plane, and head over to the North Pole (which means we taxi over to another gate), and when we arrive, we are in the North Pole complete with Santa and elves. Hannah is very excited, and I am as well, it sounds like great fun and we are so happy that Childlife has invited us, since it's by invitation only. I'm sure we'll have lots of pictures from that.

Until then, we will just keep an eye toward the prize....the end of chemo.

xoxo Kim