Ok, a decision has been reached

So the decision that we had to make this weekend, was in regards to Cambria's treatment from this point onward. We each wrote blog entries on the night we found out that we had to decide what to do, and we'll post those public later today. The long and the short of it is that while Cambria's MRI came back showing she was responding really well to treatment, it wasn't clear whether or not it was enough to stop treatment. Dr. Meany said she was leaning towards another 2 round of treatment, but stopping entirely and watching it was also a viable option. If you measured her tumor in 2 dimensions, it had not shrunk enough to stop treatment, but if you measured by volume it had shrunk just over 50%. So we had the decision of risking relapse, but getting to stop chemo, or risking possible unnecessary chemo (and its side effects) but being sure the cancer will be eradicated. We've asked the doctor a number of questions, and we've decided that we'll do one more round of chemo, and then do another scan. This isn't how this treatment is normally done, but until they can explain a good reason why these chemotherapy rounds are normally done in rounds of 2, we'll not be subjecting Cambria to the 4th round. (Keep in mind, they may still do this, and we may have another chemo in her future, but we're praying we won't!)

Here's our little girl. We got this shirt awhile ago, but haven't been able to quite face having her wear it until seeing the end of this tunnel: