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| Kennedy dressed up for the theater |
Two years ago yesterday, on February 2, we heard the words…your daughter has
leukemia. I remember sitting in the
hospital room and thinking we’d never make it through this. Two years have passed and we are not just
making it but are doing so much more; we are living, all of us. I remember thinking she wouldn’t be able to
go to kindergarten, how scared I was that she would lose her hair, scared we
would lose her….so many fears. I can’t
believe that was only two years ago.
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| Sleepover with Emily |
We are lucky when it comes to this nasty disease. So many outcomes were in her favor, the type
of the leukemia, the risk level, her fabulous doctors and her tough little
attitude. We’ve seen so many other
ways it could have been and are thankful every day it was just ALL, B-cell, low
risk. With two years of treatment behind
us, we are hoping that the next 6-months of chemo will end her/our dance with
cancer forever.
They say it is five years until she is considered “cured”,
for now she’s in remission and the chemo treatments are keeping the leukemia
away. In six months, the chemo
treatments end and she will continue to be monitored intensely through the next
2.5 years. The next 6-months can’t
happen fast enough.
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| Making a volcano explode with Dad and Maddox |
Kennedy is doing great in school and is a top speller and reader in her first grade class. She is
a sweet little girl with a very strong personality. She outwits us and knows how to get what she
wants. We are the luckiest parents to know
Princess K and watch her grow up.
For now, treatment continues. She has vincristine tomorrow and starts a week-long stint of steroids followed by another dose of vincristine. These are the pulses we hate but luckily, this is the second to last pulse of this specific drug combo. Her last vincristine/steroid mix will be in June. She still has her spinals and nightly chemo to contend with but the really yucky stuff is almost over.
Just waiting to exhale.
