Thursday

Yes Gail, no news is good news!  :)

Aly has been enjoying some time at home.  She has been feeling pretty good, tired at times, but wanting to be active at other times.  She has an appointment for an MRI tomorrow morning to see what progress has been made on destroying this tumor.  Then she has a check up appointment at the clinic following the MRI.  If she continues to feel good, we are planning to have her attend school on Monday and join her class for a field trip on Tuesday.
She is scheduled for the next round of chemotherapy starting next Thursday the 12th.  While she is in the hospital, she will be having the "mickey" stomach port put in.  This will take place of the tube coming out of her stomach.  It will sit flush against her stomach and look like a button.  Once this is in, she will be able to swim and hopefully have more freedom than what she has right now.  Aly's had swimming on her mind a lot lately and now wants to ask the Make a Wish Foundation for a swimming pool in our backyard.  It says right in their literature that they will not put in an in ground pool...maybe an above ground?
One of her swimming coaches called today and said that there is another swimmer who had a cancer diagnosis of leukemia.  Her name is Maddy.  Maddy is also getting chemotherapy treatments at Children's and we found out today, that Aly and Maddy will be in the hospital at the same time next week, so we will have to get them together.  That's it from here...