Bryce and Laney's Week...

Bryce:

He seems to be recovering from his procedure well. The pain medicine seemed to do the trick. He went for a check up and the Dr. said he's healing just perfectly. The only thing is that he still has to stay out of the jumparoo/exersaucer/etc. for at least 2 more weeks. Wow! Wish us luck!

Laney:

Right before we left for chemotherapy on Friday...

She had a pretty good week with lots of happy times. She had some fussy periods and times at night that she had trouble sleeping. It might just mean that she needs a blood transfusion...we're going to continue to watch it. She went for the last session of her first round of chemotherapy on Friday. The good news is that she gained 3 ounces (11 pounds 8 ounces)!! She also took it much better than last week and hardly even cried. We haven't seen many side effects at all...mostly she's just a little extra tired. Her blood count went slightly lower to 7.9 which just also means she might need a transfusion (not a big deal though).

Dr. Slone explained that the final pathology report came back and they found a rare type of tissue in the tumor (small-cell). Her cancer is still completely curable but it means that there is a higher chance that it will come back (32% instead of 8%). So, worst case we'll just have to do more chemotherapy in the future if it comes back. But, she assured me that since Laney was Stage 1 it is curable. If she had been a higher stage that might not have been the case.

Laney goes back for a hearing screen on Tuesday to see if the chemotherapy has caused any changes yet. Then we'll be admitted back to the hospital probably on Friday after Christmas (for 3 days) for the next inpatient chemo. This starts round 2!