8.07.2009

Clinic Update & Pictures

The update from the clinic is good- ANC = 2040. So... Mollie starts back up on daily chemo (6MP and methotrexate) at 100% dose. I am guessing her counts are going to crash again and then they will cut back on her dose until we find a happy medium. We may need to consider changing antibiotics since the Septra (Bactrim) she takes as a prophylactic can also suppress the bone marrow. But for now, all is well.

I also talked at length with Dr. Bell about the swine flu vaccine. She says get it. All of us, including Mollie. Mollie may not be able to mount a full immune response, but any immunity is better than none.

Mollie' seems ready for the first day of school. I will meet with her teacher next week to give her some information and talk about our concerns; she seems really responsive and I noticed a huge bottle of Germ-X in the classroom, so I feel pretty good about Mollie going to school on Monday.

Here are a handful of pictures from our trip. I can't really sum up the whole trip in a paragraph, so I'll just mention a few of the highlights: Claire's baptism, days at the beach, family dinners, rafting on the Truckee, Fairyland with Anita, and visiting my grandma at Mercy.

4 comments:

  1. Loved it! Miss you all so much already.

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  2. beautiful collage. i especially love the girls asleep in the airplane. i so wish i could have seen then, perhaps the fairyland day, and been a highlight as well. it would have been for lala, i am sure! that is fabulous about her ANC counts. good luck to you all on monday. i am headed offline, in awe school is starting already! i will be thinking of you all!

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  3. Wow! Love the pics. Good luck with Kindergarten! Izzy starts 1st Grade in a few weeks. Hard to believe are little ones are growing up. Miss you guys!

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  4. Love the mosaic- what a fun trip! Mollie's eyes are so blue in that bottom right photo :)

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