It has been a whirlwind of a month. On February 27th Ashlee started her firt set of chemo in Salt Lake. One drug she is given for 48 hours straight called Doxorubicin and another drug eight hours apart for four hours at a time called Cisplatin. The Cisplatin really made her sick. She was throwing up for about a week and still has tummy aches. She was released fron the hospital March 2nd in the afternoon, so we started heading home. We arrived home March 3rd in time to pick Nikki up from school.
Nikki had a cold when we left and shortly after returning home it turned into broncitis. So with Ashlee feeling icky, Nikki with broncitis and everyone else here at home has had a cold. We all could use a vacation.
Ashlee has a CBC every Monday and Thursday. Her next chemo was to be in Billings on the 19th. But her blood count on the 11th was real low and the 13th she started running a fever so she has been in Livingston Hospital since the 13th and was able to come home last night.
So next week if all is well we go to Billings for her next chemo which is Methotrexate. It is a 4 hour dose and then we stay until that drug is flushed from her system which they say is 3 to 4 days. Then a week later we go back to Billings for the same treatment. Then start the whole process over again in Salt Lake.
Each round is supose to be about 5 weeks depending on her blood counts and any delays like this week. In about 7 to 8 weeks she will have surgury in Salt Lake to remove the tumor and then if this chemo process is working correctly she will have 6 more rounds over chemo.
Thank you all for your prayers and gifts.
