Jade's Journey

For the past three weeks we have been bringing Jade into the clinic every 4 days to check her counts to start the next round of chemo. Unfortunately they (her counts) have not been cooperating with us! We are going to try again tomorrow (3/30). When we didn’t make the first scheduled start date we asked her doctor what this means. He said that he wasn’t too worried about it because we weren’t that far behind schedule and we should start to get concerned once we hit weeks 3 to 4 past the original start date. Tomorrow we hit the three week mark…we are crossing our fingers that her counts are high enough to start this round of chemo!!! If her counts aren’t high enough then we will be scheduling a bone marrow extraction to do testing because at this point it could be a sign that she is relapsing. As of last month when she had her last bone marrow extraction she was still in remission, but the doctors said that could change at any time.

Miss Jadey is trying to keep busy. She has been spending lots of time with her dog Tazzy. She really misses her teachers and her friends back at John B. Dey! She has been counting down the days until she can go back to school. Jade has also expanded her nail salon into a full service salon…she started shaving peoples heads so that they can be bald and beautiful like her! I will add pictures soon!

by Linden