As the weeks continue on Ash has consistently been having issues with her blood work. Her white blood cell and platelet counts are low. This causes a few problems. First, she has to be concerned about getting scratched or cut, and she bruises easily. Second, her immune system is weakened so she is susceptible to getting sick a little easier.
Due to the low counts when Ash went into receieve her Chemotherapy this week, they told her she can not take the Chemo with her counts being so low. She is now scheduled to go back on Monday to get new blood work, and hopefully get her Chemo treatment. I guess there is a silver lining, she gets to feel decent for the rest of the week. She really wants to get through these next two infusions of Chemo because she will get another PET scan after the treatments. If she gets a really good result then she might be able to get a 2 month break from treatment. If she doesn't get the results we are hoping for then she will have an additional 4 infusions before her next scan...and then I guess we will go from there.
Right before and right after the last infusion Ash had some horrible, sever upper stomach pain. The pain was bad enough that it caused her to throw up several times. Normally when you throw up you get some relief...When she threw up it caused the pain to worsen. After about 45 min or so the pain would subside enough for her to get some relief. I forced her to the hospital to get an ultrasound, and in typical fashion, nothing showed up on the ultrasound, and no one could give her an explanation. We are hoping that pain doesn't show up again.
For those of you who know Ashlee, know she does not like taking medication. She is always worried the medicine will only hide one sympton and create a different problem. She tries really hard to get off the nausea, and pain meds as fast as possible...She is way tougher than I am...I will openly admit that I am a baby when I am sick and will take anything to make me feel better.
I am very committed to trying to fit in as much fun stuff as possible when Ash feels good. We were able to travel to Dallas, TX to visit Travis and Ashley Miller for their baby's blessing. They are some of our best friends, and it only took us 7 years to visit them. We met a lot of wonderful people and had so much fun with them.
We were also able to spend some time with Mike and Brit down in St. George. The warm weather and sun was wonderful, and we were able to ride bikes, sled down the sand dunes and relax.
When Ash has days she feels good we try not to waste them...I guess it's a good lesson to learn, to not waste the days we feel good, and take advantage of the relationships we have. We feel like we have the best support system in the world...it is beautiful to see how everyone shows up in ways that we never knew we needed.
Due to the low counts when Ash went into receieve her Chemotherapy this week, they told her she can not take the Chemo with her counts being so low. She is now scheduled to go back on Monday to get new blood work, and hopefully get her Chemo treatment. I guess there is a silver lining, she gets to feel decent for the rest of the week. She really wants to get through these next two infusions of Chemo because she will get another PET scan after the treatments. If she gets a really good result then she might be able to get a 2 month break from treatment. If she doesn't get the results we are hoping for then she will have an additional 4 infusions before her next scan...and then I guess we will go from there.
Right before and right after the last infusion Ash had some horrible, sever upper stomach pain. The pain was bad enough that it caused her to throw up several times. Normally when you throw up you get some relief...When she threw up it caused the pain to worsen. After about 45 min or so the pain would subside enough for her to get some relief. I forced her to the hospital to get an ultrasound, and in typical fashion, nothing showed up on the ultrasound, and no one could give her an explanation. We are hoping that pain doesn't show up again.
For those of you who know Ashlee, know she does not like taking medication. She is always worried the medicine will only hide one sympton and create a different problem. She tries really hard to get off the nausea, and pain meds as fast as possible...She is way tougher than I am...I will openly admit that I am a baby when I am sick and will take anything to make me feel better.
I am very committed to trying to fit in as much fun stuff as possible when Ash feels good. We were able to travel to Dallas, TX to visit Travis and Ashley Miller for their baby's blessing. They are some of our best friends, and it only took us 7 years to visit them. We met a lot of wonderful people and had so much fun with them.
We were also able to spend some time with Mike and Brit down in St. George. The warm weather and sun was wonderful, and we were able to ride bikes, sled down the sand dunes and relax.
When Ash has days she feels good we try not to waste them...I guess it's a good lesson to learn, to not waste the days we feel good, and take advantage of the relationships we have. We feel like we have the best support system in the world...it is beautiful to see how everyone shows up in ways that we never knew we needed.
