Post-Surgery

Sorry it has been so long in updating. Our lives seem to have been a whirlwind these past couple of months. Our home was getting some needed repairs, so we were displaced for a month. Also Ashlee and I were in and out of the hospitals every week until a couple weeks ago. And we have finally seemed to have gotten our lives back organized for the time being.

Ashlee had surgery May 20th in Salt Lake to remove the tumor. They had to remove 15 centimeters of her humorous bone, the rotor cuff and surrounding mussel and tissue. With her age so young they moved her collar bone down to her arm then took 7 centimeters of her right fibula bone to make up the difference and grafted the three together. It was a very long and stressful day to say the least. The she went straight to ICU for the night then on to the surgical floor the next afternoon. She was in the hospital for almost a week.

The the next week we were back down in Salt Lake for follow-up and to start her chemo again.

She is doing quite well considering what she went through. The results of the chemo so far had killed 92% of the tumor which they said was great. And they are sure they removed all of the tumor. So she started back up with the same type of chemo treatments and should be done with them by the beginning of November.

We head to Billings Monday for 4 days have 3 days off then back to Billings then down to Salt Lake. So the next three weeks will be very busy again.

This last round in Salt Lake she did really well and we managed to stay out of the hospital once we were back home. Last time, in April, we were in the hospital the week after we got back from Salt Lake for dehydration because of a sore in her throat from the chemo drug she receives in Billings. She completly stoped drinking and eating. It took about a week for it to get better so she would drink and eat. She also had to have platletes and red blood cells due to bloody noses that wouldn't stop. This time she had the bloody noses but we could keep them under control.

Thanks for all you prayers and support.

Started 2nd Round

Ashlee had her secound round of chemo in Salt Lake this last weekend, Thursday thru Saturday. It went much better this time. She didn't get nearly as sick. We got back home last Sunday afternoon. They have put her on Neupogen injections for 10 days. This will help her blood counts start to go back up more quickly when they drop. So hopefully she won't end up in the hospital for low white blood count (zero) this time. We have two weeks off of chemo, then back to Billings for two rounds and Hopefully mid May she will have her surgery to remove the tumer. She will not have to have any lung surgery at this time. They don't think it has spread but will keep watching them.

Sandi

March 25 thru 29th

March 25th we went to Billings for Ashlee's 1st round of Methotrexate. It is given for 4 hours then 24 hours later they give her Leucovorin to flush it out of her system. The Methotrexate can cause liver, kidney and bladder damage if its not flushed out right away. We were able to come home the 29th. We head back to Billings Thursday April 1st for another round of Methotrexate. She did really well with this drug. It didn't make her sick. So four days of just hanging out in the hospital. Then next Wednesday we head back down to Salt Lake to start the whole chemo round again.

Thanks to you all for your thoughts and prayers and gifts.
Love.
The Robinson's