We spent all day today in the Almost Home unit at Children's Hospital with Kayleigh. She was there for a scheduled visit, one that was trying but had a very positive end result.
Bless Kayleigh's heart, as she was so hungry in the morning and wasn't allowed to eat a thing. The steroid that the doctor has her on makes her extremely hungry and she has to eat every couple of hours. She wasn't allowed to have anything this morning because she had to be sedated for her procedures. Of course, things did not run on time which was even worse for her. They finally took her in just before 11:00, for her lumbar puncture, bone marrow aspiration, and chemo treatment. Once she came too and was finished lying nearly upside down for a half hour, she was ready for us to order her room service. Two plates of spaghetti that little girl ate, two plates!!! We've never seen her eat like this before! We also learned that she needed yet another red blood cell transfusion and a platelet transfusion. The transfusions made our stay a little longer than expected, about 3 hours longer. Anything to help our little girl though!
While we were sitting in the room with Kayleigh, watching the Food Network which she insisted upon, the room phone rang. Jason took the call and it was a lab tech with the results of Kayleigh's bone marrow aspiration. We were so happy to hear such good results! Kayleigh's blast count had gone from 98%, down to just 3%. That means that the treatment plan the doctors are following right now is working. The Leukemia cells are being killed, I think that's the proper term to use. We can only hope and pray that her next bone marrow aspiration goes down to 0%.
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