Caroline is at City of Hope in Pasadena, going through preparatory radiation, chemo, and other treatments; her bone marrow transplant is scheduled for next Thursday, 17 July 2008.
Her mom Carmen writes:
Caroline has made it through the surgery to remove her port and put in her Hickman line, and through four radiation treatments. The radiation treatments started yesterday and knocked her down right away. I was amazed because she had always withstood really well even the "big gun" chemo they have given her. She has a hard time even getting up out of the wheel chair when they take her to radiation and has been nauseous frequently. In the past three years she has probably been nauseous 3 or 4 times and she has been nauseous that many times just in one day now. She is so strong though. I had a harder time seeing the Hickman in place than she did. She doesn't like it, but I thought I was going to faint. I keep hoping that if she is feeling this tired, the leukemia is feeling it even more. I just keep imagining any remaining leukemia cells getting zapped and evaporating. That is really the only way we can manage to keep taking her to the treatments.
Overall, it has already been more intense than I had imagined it would be at this point, but it is going as planned. All your prayers are helping her deal with it all. I keep telling her that if this is what we need to do to cure her, then we need to do it and put it behind us. Every treatment is another thing we can put in the past. With God's help, we will make it through one step at a time.
Please keep praying for Caroline as her transplant nears, for her to respond well to all of the treatments, for every single leukemia cell to be destroyed, and for the bone marrow transplant to be a complete success, and for the family to continue relying on the grace and healing of Christ our Lord. Caroline has the stained glass window of her horse that Keith Barrett made and her prayer quilt from Lake Murray with her at City of Hope. Thanks for supporting this dear family and for continuing in prayer for them.
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