Maintenance

We finally made it! I never thought that I would live to see the day that we were onto the maintenance part of Odette's chemotherapy. The days and nights past have been so very, very long, but with all the faith, love and prayers everyone has offered in our behalf, we have survived the past six months! I have never done and hope never to have to again go through something so very hard.

Odette, and family, still have a long road ahead. We will be going in on the 14th of December for a spinal tap and to get our teaching about the chemo we will be doing at home. We should have seven weeks of being at home before we go back into the hospital for a couple of weeks of high doses of chemo. (As long as we don't get fevers in the mean time.) Then the process is repeated over again. (Right now 10 days of amoxicillin doesn't seem so bad!) This will continue until we reach week 49 and then we do the final evaluation to make sure that all this worked.

Being at home is going to be great for the family. Having a baby have cancer has had many challenges go with it. It has been really hard on the entire family. Hopefully being at home all together, we will be able to get into a routine and Odette will be able to have continuity and learn. I was sad that I wasn't enjoying Odette as a baby and praying for her to grow up because that meant we would be out of this mess. However, it looks that I still get her as a baby because she is about at the same level as when we started chemo. I still get to teach her to crawl, walk and eat-without puke I hope! The nicest thing is that she still loves to cuddle like a baby...lots of days this is my best medicine.

Hooray for Odette being such a great fighter! She has beaten the odds and proven that she has a very strong spirit to share with many!