I have been bad at writing lately...I usually have good intentions, but naturally life just gets in the way. Sometimes I just don't want to talk about the everyday grind Ashlee faces while being on chemo treatment. In the Middle of June Ash started a new Chemo regimen called Fol-firi. When you say Fol-firi is sound like "fury" I picture that movie with Brad Pitt...and an army of craziness going in to destroy Ashlee's cancer. I actually never saw the movie, but I heard it was pretty violent...I think sometimes Ash feels like she has a war going on inside of her.
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Anyway, we continue to hope the chemo can keep things in check.
Today we got the results of Ashlee's latest PET Scan. I think I have mentioned before how much anxiety and nervous go along with these results. So naturally we sat in the little Dr's room for almost an hour past our original appointment while we waited. It's never fun going to the Doctors, but when you are sitting around waiting for such serious results, your head automatically thinks the only reason they are taking so long is because we are going to get a bad result. So after sweating through my shirt and wanting to throw up for about an hour, Dr Sharma and his nurse finally came in. Luckily we got some good news. Ashlee's tumors are still lighting up, but not as much as before. The plan moving forward is to stay on this chemo regimen for about 9 weeks and then they will scan her again and then reassess.
I can't imagine Ash going through the wide range of painful side effects and not having a response, so in the scheme of everything, today brought some good news.
Life continues to move forward, and Ash continues to try to make the most of the days she feels good. We love all of the people that reach out to us and the many prayers said on her behalf, they means so much to us! We wish we could spend time with everyone!
