Sunday, June 2, 2013



This is a picture of our dear friends the Biorns!  Oklahoma Strong T-shirts and Ainsley's Army bracelets!  Very fitting for what the State of Oklahoma is facing as a whole and for what we are facing with Ainsley.  We love and miss you guys and are so thankful!  This picture put a HUGE smile on our faces!

Ainsley got to go to church today and she loved it!  She stayed on one of our laps the whole time except for when she got to go up and "fish" to choose the next Primary Song.  She slept for about 1.5 hours of the 3 hrs.  It was so nice to have the whole family back together at church.

Tuesday will be another attempt at a bone marrow sample and then 4 days in hospital for IV methotrexate.  Words is this one will make her more ill than others have, and it has to be monitored much more closely (hence the 4 day admission).  If her numbers aren't high enough then they delay it another week, until she climbs back up.  Once it starts, she'll be inpatient in the hospital for 4 days of every 2 weeks for two months. 

Otherwise she has done well so far.  She is excited for the Barrel Race, which has been rescheduled for June 22.  Saturday ended up being beautiful by morning, but it was the right call to cancel because the horses wouldn't have had a safe arena due to mud, local rivers were in flash-flood warning stages, and we'd still be pulling cars, trucks, trailers, and probably flip-flops and lost shoes out of the mud bog that would have been created in the parking-lot (translation=field).  It would have been messy.  Hopefully this will also give us time to give a sample into what the silent auction will entail, because I will be honest, there have been some pretty amazing things donated that I think you are all going to LOVE! 



1 comment:

  1. Methotrexate is nasty stuff, but Andrew weathered 4 doses of it without serious complications. He received tons of fluids, had to go to the bathroom every 2 hours for 2 days, and had to take Leucovorin, a "rescue" drug around the clock for a couple of days to combat its side effects. Alternating Ben/Phen and Zofran every three hours kept his nausea under control. I am so grateful for modern medicine that helps our kids overcome not only the cancer, but its cure too. Keep fighting, Smedleys!

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