Friday, March 03, 2006

Caesarian tentative for March 20/21

Chantel spoke with her Obstetrician today and they have scheduled her for the 20th or 21st. We are waiting for final word from the Hospital to confirm that they were able to bump someone else. Marcus' birthday will be either 2 or 3 days before Ava's who is turning 8.

Chantel has been a little more emotional at the thought of all the medical work she needs to go through over the next few weeks: Caesarian, liver biopsy, bone marrow biopsy, and she needs to see the Dentist to do any work prior to chemo.

Chantel's chemo was scheduled for March 22nd but it will now have to be postponed until March 27th at the earliest. Finally after 3 months of waiting, we will begin treating her cancer. Not sure how long she will be undergoing treatment but we will know better once the baby is out as Chantel will go through a series of tests to finalize what stage of Hodgkins she is at.

Chantel will not be able to breastfeed (this upsets her quite a bit) but we are going to buy pasturized expressed mother's milk... I know, bizarre but true. This will be better for the baby.

1 Comments:

At 4:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Laurie and Chantal,

Hope all is continuing to go 'as well as can be expected' with your health. I just read your latest blog and am amazed at how positive and strong you are!

I just started subscribing to a listserve for NHL survivors that I found via a 'childhood cancer survivors' research program I am part of:
(www.acor.org)
Let me know if and when you need more info: doni.jerry@telus.net

Best of luck in your delivery!

doni jacklin (jerry gratton's wife, at 1800 got junk)

 

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