Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007

We spent the morning at clinic again today, this time getting Hannah's MRI's. It is actually a four part MRI, the head, the spine, the head with contrast dye, and the spine with constrast dye. It's a long time to lay still, but she gets small breaks in between. She did really well. She does have little signs for me like moving the feet a little is just playing around, moving the feet a lot means I have to go the bathroom NOW!

The results usually take a day or two, the pictures have to be read by the radiologist before they can release anything to us. I received a call on the way home from the doctor's assistant. It had only been an hour. Usually that means one thing-it's BAD. They only call you so quickly if they see something. As she started speaking, all I could hear was "come right back to the hospital", but the words were "all clear, everything looks good!" This lady is new at the hospital and obviously doesn't know the "make them wait" strategy. She almost gave me a heart attack!!

All we need now to complete our lucky three before Christmas is a good check up on Monday, Christmas Eve at the clinic. I'm praying that her counts are holding up and she won't need blood or shots around the holidays. They did say they might let her go a bit lower without trying to artificially raise her up since she has no more chemo left. But, they can only go so low before they have to give a transfusion or give her the ANC boosting shots.

Now for the fun stuff-CLUE #5, of course, 5 golden rings. We didn't find this clue until this morning, it had blown behind the Cans for Cancer bins. Hannah and I opened it at 6:30am when we left for clinic. Now we know they are "5 of them". The rings were great......can't wait for #6!!

Tonight was Dave's birthday, so we celebrated with homemade cards from the girls, and a cake that Hannah helped make and decorated by herself. She really does love to bake. Here is a picture of Hannah's card to Dave, modeled after a card she saw earlier. If you can't quite read it, is says:
Why old people should not tell jokes
Person #1: Knock Knock
Person #2: Can you wait a minute, I think someone is at the door.
Isn't it a riot?

All is good and so far this Christmas season we have really been blessed. Now if some Christmas angel could swoop down and get my Christmas cards out, that would really be a miracle! Just think of it this way, we'll be unique this year, the only card you receive AFTER the holidays!

xoxo Kim