Feb 11 - Day 7/30- Last Chemo Day and Long Term Plan

Today Jessie had her last dose of chemo for this round 1. It only takes 15 minutes for the poison to enter and much longer for it to leave. The doctors say Jessie is doing very well. We found out yesterday evening when the doctor was running through her "numbers" that the "blast" (which are the leukemia cells) are down to 4% in her bloodstream. They started at 15% last week when we first got here. This is good news!! Her body is responding just as it should. Now we wait for her body to recover as the white blood count comes up. They expect this process to take 2.5-3 weeks. She needs time to feel better and for her body to get stronger for the next round. Meanwhile, she has been watching lots of movies with Colin on a tablet. Round 2 will be approximately 3 months of outpatient hospital visits. She will have to go for treatments for 2 hours every day (5 days/week)  for 10 of the 12 weeks. Then she will be re-admitted to the hospital for a month during the summer to go through another round of inpatient treatment. If all goes well she will go off to college in August cured. Amen.