Who needs hair anyway?!

This is the first day that Katie has felt pretty good. I thought it was worth an update. She is hungry and eating loads, an appetite developed out of nowhere! Hopefully she is gaining weight as she need some meat on her bones. We were very excited to learn that Katie has grown an entire centimetre. As some of you may know, chemo and radiation stunts the growth so every little centimetre counts. Ok so she was never going to be a 5'11 catwalk model with parents this height, but it's fabulous to know she's growing!! :-)

The news from the last week; due to a double lumen infection in her Hickman, they decided to pull the line. She was supposed to have another line inserted this morning but the operation was pushed back to this afternoon. (We are hoping to come home this evening.) Dr Ainsel isn't budging and was insistent that it was to be yet another Hickman, as opposed to a port-a-cath tunnelled under the skin. Katie's had two x-rays this week. One was to check her veins to ensure all was well enough for another Hickman insertion. The other was due to persistent shoulder pain. She was holding her left arm in a funny way, it was limp next to her body and her shoulder was drooping. They were slightly concerned she had, somehow, disclocated her shoulder, but fortunately all is well and it looks like muscular pain. Our dear friend, Charly, yet again, made her prescence very welcome and offered her massage services. Lovely!!

Katie is practically bald minus some peach fuzz and her eyebrows. I'll be terribly sad when her beautiful eye lashes start falling out again. But, as we told her, we think she is beautiful.....hair or no hair!

Before I go, I wanted to wish everyone a good weekend. Please pray for miss Katie's blood counts to rise in order for her to start the next round of chemotherapy. Thank you!