Getting ready for the long road ahead

They are doing a PICC line (to pull blood and give IV in one port) and a spinal tap today, so Danielle is starving again. At least it’s at 1pm, so she’s done by 2 and ready for food.

The food doesn’t get delivered till 3:30 but it’s the best mac & cheese ever!!

With the spinal tap they take out some fluid for testing, then add the first chemo treatment directly into her spine.

Thank-you Morgan for all the help!!

9pm we start the first of ten chemo treatments, lots of strong chemicals are slowly being dripped into our childs blood stream.

We are NOT looking forward to this, I’ve been told that if the chemo was to drip on your skin it would burn-and this is going straight into my child’s blood stream!  She will in turn pee it out, with the dead cells that it attacks. I guess it will change the pee color too… Hmmm, that she may find interesting!  Most assuredly the blue chemo!

I’m scared…

Dad