Almost Done With Round 2 in the Hospital

Ava was so happy to see her Daddy on Friday, she couldn't get to him fast enough when he walked in the door.  After a fantastic weekend, Ava's counts have started to recover.  This is a trend, she spends time with Justin and her counts go up, the same thing happened during her last round of chemo.  She has 34 monocytes as of today, no ANC yet but hopefully we will wake up tomorrow to find her ANC is up and we get to go home!

She has been doing really well this time around, even better than I had expected.  She didn't have a reaction to her platelet transfusion and she only had to have one since she is now making her own platelets.  Ava hasn't had any fevers, so she hasn't had to have any antibiotics this time.  She's been drinking enough throughout the day so she hasn't had to be hooked up to fluids at night, which means that she has been sleeping better.  What can I say...we've been lucky!

Ava had a great visit with her big sister Addison yesterday.  Addison thinks she knows so much more than Ava (and everyone else) and since most of Ava's books are primarily pictures, she feels she can read the stories without mom or dad's help.  Ava really enjoyed the positive (not fighting over toys or most recently, suitcases) attention from Addison too.

Today Ava made a new friend, her name is Mary Kay and she is a Pet Therapist here at Primary Children's Medical Center.  Ava played with Mary Kay while KSL News video taped her for an upcoming telethon the ICS Team is putting on to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research.  She was quite a ham for the team filming her...maybe she will have a future in front of the camera one day.  =)

Thank you to everyone for the continued positive thoughts and prayers...they are definitely helping!  We will keep you posted on Ava's progress.

XOXO