Team Lina

could someone either cut me in half or make a clone of me ;) LOL
Both girls are feeling rotten. Frieda came down with a fever this afternoon and Lina's face and body colour is not even an off-white anymore (a true PALEthorpe, the palest we have seen her so far I think). Lina is also neutropenic so we are desperately trying to separate the two girls as Lina would be hospitalized if she were to ...

Hairloss and MRI results

We were waiting for the MRI all day yesterday and just when we thought we would
have to wait until Friday we got "the call"
It was not what we had hoped for as the tumor is unchanged and did not shrink.
We try to focus on the fact that it could be worse, the tumor could have continued to
grow.
The oncology team here thinks we should give it one more try and do one mo ...

Today is day 13 of her 21 day chemo circle and tomorrow we will already scan again. Lina will have an MRI with sedation at BCCH. We usually scan after 2 rounds of chemo and just before day 21 of round 2 but this time we need to scan earlier to make sure she is not progressing while on chemo.
At her first check up after 5 days of chemo infusions Lina needed a 3 hour blood transfusion. Usually ...