Day 33

     WONDERFUL NEWS TODAY!  Katie's MRD test results came back at 5:00 p.m. and the results show Zero, none, nada, 0 Leukemia cells in Katie's bone marrow!!!  When we started, Katie's bones were 95% full of blasts (and that's bad)  Katie's bones are making marrow again.  That is excellent news!  This means the treatments have been working.  This gives us great cause for hope!  Katie is an "early" responder!  This doesn't mean were are out of danger, it just means no Leukemia is detectable.  There could still be a cell (or more) in our Katie's body, and she will still need the next two years of treatment, to ensure those cells don't multiply into to full blown Leukemia again.  So the next two years of treatment is still necessary, because even during treatment, the Leukemia could reappear at anytime.  BUT for today we will celebrate this great news!!
     The steroids are still very present...we had little to no sleep again last night.  Katie woke up, just as I was falling asleep and she couldn't seem to sleep the rest of the night.  She started having some "roid rage" at 3:00 a.m. so Scott and I drove her around in the car again.  The rage and insomnia should end soon.  We are ready! =)  Today was up and down, but we did get some good smiles.  We are ready for more of those...and kisses!
     Tonight my thoughts turned to these verses in 1 Nephi 4:1-3 "...and let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold He is mightier than all the earth, then why not mightier than Laban and his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?
"Therefore let us go up; let us be strong like unto Moses; for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they divided hither and thither, and our fathers came through, out of captivity, on dry ground, and the armies of Pharaoh did follow and were drowned in the waters of the Red Sea.
"Now behold ye know this is true;...wherefore can ye doubt?  Let us go up; the Lord is able to deliver us, even as our fathers, and to destroy Laban, even as the Egyptians."   I don't doubt.  The Red Sea did divide hither and thither...and the Lord is able to deliver us, even as our fathers, and to destroy LEUKEMIA even as the Egyptians!  Praise be the name of the Lord!  Today we are glad for the number ZERO! =)