Day 154

     Well, I guess the stress got us again.  Scott is home sick today with a fever and a cough.  I have it a little bit - however, no fever yet for me.  It couldn't have happened at a worse time!  Katie seems to be doing okay.  She has a runny nose and looks a little pale, but she is acting fine.  I think the steroids have lingered longer, and I think she may make counts tomorrow.   
     If she makes counts, then tomorrow (Thursday) will be what they call an "all day" chemo treatment.  It is a new chemo to us.  They have to flush her with fluids for a couple of hours prior to giving her the chemo, and then the chemo is slowly administered through the IV into her port, then they will flush her with fluids for a couple of hours afterward.  Apparently, it is a very toxic chemo.  They will also "teach" us how to give Katie her shots - which we will have to do at home, 3 times a week, in addition to her weekly chemo at the clinic.  Katie will also go back to the clinic on Friday (the very next morning) and get a Lumbar Puncture (a spinal tap of chemo).  -- Hence my dread of Thursday.....But today still isn't Thursday, so once again, I will be glad about that.  We will enjoy watching Katie make the most of today!
     "Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance.  Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward." (Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, May 1990, 34).