Prayers welcome here

Maybe not in some schools, or in public, or on TV, but Prayers are welcome here.

There was just no stopping the severe gaze Katherine's nurse practitioner gave as she tried to prepare me for the next phase of therapy. The potential side effects of the next group of chemotherapies are scary; but that really minimizes it...

I had though we were out of the woods and that we'd go from daily in-house care to weekly care to ten day care...

But we are now back to weekly care with poisons that can break down her heart muscle, make long term learning disorders, long term mobility issues, tummy aches and vomiting and immediate immune system reduction...

And the last one is actually something we want.
These all work in combination to wipe out her bone marrow and reset it. So that when it grows back, it grows back clean. And ultimately we want that. We are willing to do anything to keep her alive... To keep the cancer from coming back. But wow, at what cost?

The cost of other little lives. Other little kids who tried these chemotherapies first. Little lives who got the side effects, whose experiences help change the dosages so that Katherine's risks of side effects are lower. Little ones whose doses maybe weren't high enough to ultimately beat the cancer.

More research needs to be done. More studies. More funding. It might not be able to help Katherine, but there are others who will follow her. Please consider joining the fight against childhood cancer.

And... Please pray she rides the sidelines and doesn't get these side effects. Please pray she makes it through to the other side. That in the short term she makes it through the next 10 weeks.

If I know her, she'll do great. She's done great, with God's help and your prayers. Please keep praying. Thank you,
Mom