The Good News

This past weekend a lot went on so bare with me as I may repeat myself :) We had a hair cutting event in support of Sophia that I called Making The Cut. It was two days of hair cutting, family, friends, fellowship, and food! We had a total of 15 people who cut their hair and a total of 4 who donated between 8-13in of hair, and one of those hair cutters was a friend of my sister in law, who lives in San Diego, and cut her hair all the way over there :) It was nice to see everyone there to support our little girl, it means so much to her dad and I. Sophia was having a great time too with all her cousins over, she has slowly returned to her old young self since getting off of the steroids. For about 3 weeks now she hasn't wanted to walk due to her joint pain and weight gain but she has now started to try standing and crawling again. It's so hard to go from passing all these stages with her to going backwards and now forwards and possibly backwards again in the future. What a roller coaster we've all been on, sheesh. I can't forget to mention that there was also a friend of a friend, who lives in Paris, who did a run in honor of Sophia, all the way over there, how awesome was that of her to do. We are blown away at all the support she is getting from all over the world. God is so good to place such people in our lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All weekend long my mind was full of appreciation and concern. Appreciation for everyone that helped us out that weekend, which included 2 hairstylist that donated their skill and time, and appreciation to everyone who came over to support Sophia but my concern was for what was to come on Monday, today. Today started out early again, 4:30 a.m. early. We arrived at Children's, checked her in, waited for her to be called and she got prepped for her procedure (LB w/Chemo) then her blood counts came back and her ANC count (Absolute neutrophil count) was low so they had to reschedule her procedure. Hubby and I were kind of bummed but at least she gets another week to recuperate and allow her blood levels to go back up. Since we had to reschedule everything our meeting with the doctor was canceled which we were also bummed about but since we still had to go to clinic to get her picc line dressing changed we asked if we could just get the results from her bone marrow aspiration; the one and only thing I was thinking about all week, the reason why I thought we had to go today besides her procedure, the reason why I was concerned. When the nurse was all done with Sophia she went and spoke with the doctor and got our results for us. She came back with the good news, Sophia's cancer is in remission! So this means as long as she keeps doing well she should be on her way to recovery, Lord willing. We couldn't be more relieved about anything. Remission is a great word to hear since learning the cancer word. We have faith in God that He will heal Sophia completely. So far He has answered every prayer of ours and everyone around us and everyone far far away from us so we have no doubt that He will continue answering everyone's prayers for our little girl.