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.
Hi guys! Glad to hear things are progressing well. Thank you for your post.
ReplyDeletePlease let me know if you are doing any benefits. I would love to give some stuff for an auction if needed. And if you aren't I would love to organize one if you would like.
You're in our thoughts and prayers.
Love, Frank and Amanda