Sunday

Spent the morning paying medical bills, and updating the "notebook". Remember the notebook? It started with a 1 inch binder, moved on to a 2 inch binder, and now after 10 months, a 4 inch binder is full to the point of overflowing. Hard to believe 10 months have gone by since the "cancer" journey began. Tomorrow marks 5 months since Sarah's stem cell transplant, she has come so far in a short amount of time. But, I can tell you, cancer is not for the faint of heart.
Sarah has had so many tests, procedures, medications, etc, that without the notebook I never would have kept it all straight. Aside from the six rounds of chemo and the stem cell transplant, Sarah has had: a brain biopsy, a bone marrow aspiration, an EEG, a PET scan, a MUGA scan of her heart, a pulmonary function test on her lungs, surgery to insert a port, a shiley catheter inserted in her neck for the stem cell collection, a pic line inserted in her arm for extra IV access, ultra sounds of her heart and legs, 5 CAT scans, 6 X-rays, 10 MRI's, 2 neuro/cognitive evaluations, and numerous blood and platelet transfusions!! And now, after all that, my beautiful girl is getting ready to go back to college in the spring. The journey is far from over, but the ride is definitely less bumpy.
Happy 5 month anniversary Sarah, love you :)