Reunited Friends

Yesterday I wrote that we were going to go to an evening of the arts put on by Josh's school, that Josh would be in the performance, and that we would be taking Katie. Well, we did and we all had fun, but Katie enjoyed herself most of all. She hasn't seen some of her friends since she left day care back in January and last night, one of her favorite little friends attended the show. Camden is also two, maybe three by now and he and Katie used to play together every day until we had to keep her home from day care. They were both very happy to see each other, and Katie spent most of her time either following Camden around as he visited other people in the audience or sitting on Camden's mother's lap. They both look pretty happy in these two pictures.

As for a medical update, we took Katie up to North Country Hospital tonight for lab work and we just got the results. Her numbers are surprisingly good considering that Amy and I were both expecting the lab work to show that she needed a transfusion. Her white blood cells are at 3.5. Her ANC is 2450. Her hemoglobin is 9.1 and her platelets are 277,000. With numbers like that we can't complain. We are left wondering though, why she has seemed weak, tired and cold with a hemoglobin of 9.1. I'll ask about that tomorrow when we are at Fletcher Allen for chemotherapy.

This chemotherapy trip will not be one of the more pleasant quick and painless ones. Amy just pointed out that tomorrow is a hungry day, meaning that Katie won't be allowed to eat anything from midnight tonight until after she has had her lumbar puncture around 1pm tomorrow. That makes for a long day for a little girl.