Hello all
Not really much to report. Everything is going well, Caitlyn is feeling well. Her blood counts seem to be staying up where they are suppose to so far and hopefully I haven't jinxed myself. So hopefully her next chemo won't be delayed. It is scheduled for Dec 14th.
On the hockey side of our life, (which it seems we have only two things in our life, hockey and chemo, haha) Caitlyn has been asked to join the Midget girls hockey team which is where the majority of the girls she played with last year are playing. She is considered a staff member and is very excited about it. This weekend is Silver stick for the girls here in Port Elgin. There is a game scheduled for the Women's Hockey League on Saturday at 2 pm between Vaughan and Burlington. Caitlyn has been asked to drop the puck at that game. She is pretty excited about that too.
Well, hopefully I will have nothing more to report than hockey news for the next little while.
Take care
The Cobeans

Round 5 done!!

Hello all
Well, Caitlyn was able to complete round 5 of her chemo without a hitch. She had one day of feeling slightly gross, but it was a PD day anyways so she just laid around on the couch anyways. She has been at school throughout and feeling good.
This weeks blood work was just great so with all fingers crossed her blood work will stay up there and she will be able to start round 6 (last round in this protocol) on December 14th. We think that the plan after she is done chemo is that they monitor the tumour every 3 months and make sure there isn't any growth. But we really haven't went over with the doctors as to what happens after chemo. When we got this protocol explained to us was last January and we were having a little trouble looking past that day. But here we near the end of chemo and need to look beyond it.
Anyways it is good to see her feeling so good and getting back to some of the things that she used to do.

Til next time
The Cobeans

Round 5 at last!!

Hello all

Well, Caitlyn was finally able to start round 5 of her chemo. She is 5 weeks late but better late than never. She had blood work in Southampton on Thurs and it was still not high enough. She had an appointment in Toronto yesterday for a recheck on her foot so we went to Sick Kids to see about what we were to do, so they repeated the bloodwork. Someone answered my prayer, and her blood work had improved, so she was able to start last night. She, of course, was a little apprehensive because she has been so long since she last took it and she has been feeling absolutely great. But she put the brave face on and her first dose is in. She will be taking it for the next 4 nights then hopefully will have only 37 days off and start her last round (#6) mid December.

Other than this, as I said, she is feeling great. Her walking is improving and her arm is getting stronger. She is starting back with some physio and is setting some goals for the new year. Here is a picture of her when she dropped the puck at the Winterhawks game last week. She was presented with a signed jersey from the team and a signed stick from the opposing team. She was very excited!!

Well, hopefully we won't have any updates until next week to tell you that she sailed through her chemo.

The Cobeans