Getting ready for her MRI
Becky holding Emery
Cutie pie out for lunch
Jim treated us to lunch--thanks, Jimmy!
Emery was such a good girl at the restaurant!
Reaching for toys!We finally have all the info we needed to put up a post about Emery's wonderful progress. We thank you for your patience and know you will agree that it was worth the wait! Emery's tumor has diminished by 80% and is not putting as much pressure on her spinal column as it was before! This is much better news than we expected or even hoped for! Her doctors are all thrilled and feel that she is doing beautifully with her treatment. They discussed treatment options, which were: do nothing and keep a watch on the rest of the tumor, continue with chemo since she has responded so well, or perform surgery now to remove the remainder of the tumor. It was decided that chemo is the best course of treatment. Surgery is still risky because of the placement of the tumor, and there is not enough data on tumors near the spine to know if watching and waiting would be beneficial.
We are so excited and happy to have this positive news after weeks of hoping and praying and wondering how well the chemo was working. Thank you all for your love and support as we have continued this journey with our precious baby Emery. She is definitely surrounded with so much love from so many people.
David will be in this afternoon and will spend the weekend with his girls. Emery had her dressing changed on her central line this morning and then we went to meet my friend Jim who happened to be in town from Abilene and gave us a call to go out for lunch. So nice to just relax and chat! Emery will go to the clinic in the morning and will be readmitted to the hospital for chemotherapy tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. After she is released from the hospital, we will begin the outpatient process of clinic visits, injections, and lab work till all of her levels are back up to a good range. We are still not sure what this means in the overall scheme of things but will be here for the three weeks of the third round, as far as we know right now. Then it will depend on how well the tumor has responded to this round.
We're all wearing big smiles!
We are so excited and happy to have this positive news after weeks of hoping and praying and wondering how well the chemo was working. Thank you all for your love and support as we have continued this journey with our precious baby Emery. She is definitely surrounded with so much love from so many people.
David will be in this afternoon and will spend the weekend with his girls. Emery had her dressing changed on her central line this morning and then we went to meet my friend Jim who happened to be in town from Abilene and gave us a call to go out for lunch. So nice to just relax and chat! Emery will go to the clinic in the morning and will be readmitted to the hospital for chemotherapy tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. After she is released from the hospital, we will begin the outpatient process of clinic visits, injections, and lab work till all of her levels are back up to a good range. We are still not sure what this means in the overall scheme of things but will be here for the three weeks of the third round, as far as we know right now. Then it will depend on how well the tumor has responded to this round.
We're all wearing big smiles!
6 comments:
Glad you had a good lunch with a good friend. One thing I can say about him is he was always there when things were tough--but he had less gray hair then. :)
So glad for the great news and pray for continued healing.
Prayers work, great to hear the good news! Continuing our support and prayers.
God is Soooooo Good! Praise you Lord Jesus! We are so blessed to hear the news!!!
So glad to hear the news. Take care of all of you!
Big smiles from the island!
Thanks, everyone!
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