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Well, here we are all home on a wonderful snow day. We are feeling like we are inside an igloo and can not really see too far outside our windows.
Caitlyn has completed her exams, writing math last Friday and geography on Monday. She felt pretty good about both of them. She is feeling really good these days and we even had the opportunity to finally go out and celebrate the fact that she finished chemo. Our camping friends and the five of us went to Crabby Joe's last night for dinner to celebrate. Finishing dinner with a cake decorated with "Yipee, chemo is over!"
Well, we will let everyone know how well she did in this semesters courses. Next semester starts next week and she will be taking English, History and Food & Nutrition, using the 4th period for her physio/ occupational therapy.
No word yet on the MRI date but we will keep all posted.

The Cobean

All Done!

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Well, her last round of chemo is complete!!!!!!!!!! She did spend the entire week home from school as her stomach was quite upset and we ended up in Emerg on Tuesday night with uncontrollable heartburn which was treated with a solution that was effective. She experienced fatigue also this week, but appears to be bouncing back once again. She definitely had an enormous smile on her face Friday morning when she realized that there would not be any more chemo.
Now, you ask what happens now. While as Caitlyn was told at Sick Kids last time she was there. She has 3 jobs to do now. 1) Have a MRI every 3 months, 2) Do bloodwork regularly and 3) Go have fun and be a kid. Well, I think that we can handle all of that.
So they monitor the tumour with the MRIs and they may sometime in the future have to restart chemo if there is regrowth of the tumour but for now, all is good.
We will continually keep everyone up to date with her progress.

Thanks
The Cobeans

Well,Round 6 here we come

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Well, the bloodwork this morning showed that her body has recouped enough to have her last round of chemo!!! They are eliminating the one kind of chemo because her counts have been struggling to come back up but they are keeping the rest the same. This is not an issue though. Now, Caitlyn is following her hockey team to Cambridge for a tournament this weekend so the doctors agreed that she could delay starting the chemo until Sunday night. Following that she doesn't go back to Sick Kids until her next MRI which should be some time near the end of this month.
In the rest of her life, well, she is gearing up for exams at school and studying seems to be going okay so far. Her physio and occupational therapy that she does at school really has been going well. She has some great educational assistants who really challenge her and do a lot to help with her therapy. Today, for the first she walked the halls of the high school with her E.A.s. This is now going to be a part of her daily therapy, to get up from her scooter and go for a walk. Her next goal is to go without her scooter at school on her birthday (Feb 22) therefore she is going to practice until then.
Well, we will update next week following her LAST round of chemo.

The Cobeans

A New Year

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Well, we have all survived the festive season. Busy but fun!! Caitlyn has not had much to do medically since the last posting but she has done lots. We celebrated Xmas and Boxing Day with family then New Years eve and day with friends. She also completed her goal of the holiday break and that was to get back on skates. She was quite nervous but made a half of a lap around the arena before taking the skates off.
Then, today was back to the grindstone with bloodwork. Her platelets are high enough but her neutrophils (for fighting infection) are still too low. So no sign of chemo yet. Bloodwork will be again next week to see if they are coming up. Until then......
The Cobean