October 13, 2017

Sarah will have six rounds of chemo.  The last three rounds of chemo will be hitting her extra hard so we can make sure we get all the cancer cells.  Those rounds will be so intense she won't be able to build her immune system on her own, so she will have three stem cell transplants.

She has finished round one of chemo and her counts have recovered, so we started the stem cell harvest. The bone marrow team came in with this amazing machine that pulls Sarah's blood out and skims out her stem cells then gives her back the rest of the blood.  She had to be in bed through the process, it took about 7 hours.  She wanted to get out and play, but thankfully we were able to distract her.  She played with the nurse from the stem cell team, listened to Moana, watched mommy's phone, and slept.  We needed to collect 15 million stem cells and were able to get 21.3 million.

We are officially done with round one!!



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  1. AmandaOctober 22, 2017 at 9:13 PM

    This sounds like an amazing process! I'm so grateful for modern medicine! Keeping a 2-year-old in bed for 7 hours does not sound easy, so good job on making it through that one!

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