Lily had the blood transfusion today without any problems. Actually, she slept through the whole thing, which took about 3 hours.

Afterwards, she had chemo. That transfusion took a good 3 hours as well. In all, we were at the clinic for nearly 7 hours today.

Lily has been such a trooper all week. She never complained even though every day she had to get up early, spend half the day at the clinic getting treatments and go home attached to a heavy hydration pack. The constant fluids meant that she was waking up several times a night to go to the bathroom. This, combined with the fact that her hemoglobin was very low made for an extremely tired little girl. Nonetheless, through it all, she has had cheerful spirits and a positive attitude. I love my girl!!

We met with a new naturopathic doctor on Thursday. He has been amazingly helpful already and is infectiously positive. He wants to start next week with intravenous nutrition therapy and has sent us a plan for supplements and diet. I like that he is willing to work with our oncologist to find out what is going to work best with Lily’s chemotherapy treatments. From him, we are able to get professional advice from a different perspective.

Next week will be chemo free! However, Lily will have to have daily injections of Neupogen in the hopes that her white blood counts don’t drop too low. Luckily she hasn’t had any uncomfortable side effects from this drug other than occasional bruising at the injection site.

We will be meeting with the naturopathic doctor next week and will pop into the clinic for blood draws on Wednesday. Hopefully there will be no other need for doctor visits!