Dad: Quarantine supersized

So her numbers were up, which was awesome.  We did chemo round 2, which was less awesome, but you can't complain too much when we are talking about the cure to cancer.  For a couple of days after that we lifted the quarantine a little.  Now that was nice.  We had a couple of friends over for dinner and generally slept a little easier.  I know it's weird to say that we slept easier immediately after having given our daughter this brutal chemo that will result in cardiovascular check ups for the rest of her life...but her numbers were up.

Then we went in to check her numbers this past wednesday.  Which is beginning to be a very "Cheers"-esk experience.  And by that I don't mean that it was the place where everyone knows my name.  No, it's the place where everyone knows Cambria's name.  This time she got her blood drawn with a small crowd of nurses cooing at her...and one playing a guitar.  Considering my daughter has two passions in her life and music is one of them, the guitar was so much more interesting then the needle and she barely noticed the blood draw.

Afterwards we met with Dr. Meany and Dr. Weaver met up with us and, after 5 minutes of doting over her cuteness (cuz she is) they told us that cambria's ANC was 10.  Just for a frame of reference, a baby of her age is normally 1k to 9k.  Before we started chemo numbero uno, she was 1,500.  This means that with the slightest fever we drive straight to the hospital for a 24 to 48 hour stay, because she literally cannot fight off any infection.

Thus and therefore the super quarantine.  Sooo yeah, no more guests, no more trips to the store.  If either me or my wife develops a slight fever we are banished from the house until it's gone.  Luckily this hasn't happened yet.  But we would appreciate prayer that we keep well through this process.

Anyway, enough of the trudge and on to the good news.  Next thursday is kind of a big deal.  We take a peek at Cambria's little piece of Cancer and see how it's doing.  We got to choose, MRI or CTscan (lucky us, right) we're going with MRI.  The reason why this is such a big deal is, if the little wayward piece of nerve endings (her tumor) were to have reduced to 50 percent of it's largest recorded size or smaller, Cambria wins.  By that I mean Chemo is done. The docs think that we are going to need 2 more sessions before this happens, but maybe, just maybe, we will find out that it's done now.  Yeah, we are kinda excited.

No one's sick, and no one's been sick this whole time, and maybe, just maybe, we're done with the hard part of all of this.  Our God is an awesome God.