Going Home Day

Greta is almost done with her 12th round of chemo. She'll have one more today, then we have to wait for her last antibiotic and then we'll be heading home late tonight. Once again, she's doing great with it, eating and sleeping well and lots of playing. She's even gotten used to being confined to her room.

Greta did start losing her hair last week. We started noticing that her eyelashes were getting quite sparse until there weren't any, and her eyebrows soon followed. She has a little bit of hair around the back of her head, but the top has mostly fallen out. We're surprised that after dropping a drug she started losing it after holding onto it for the past 25 weeks. She fortunately has a pretty cute head!

We've decided that we will go through with the high dose chemo with stem cell transplant following her last regular chemo treatment. Doctors say we could be here as long as a month for the whole process. We're hopeful that she'll continue to respond and recover as she has so far so that we'll be home quicker. We're allowed only a couple predetermined visitors during that time so to limit her exposure to infection. Unfortunately, Gavin will not be able to see his little sister during that time. I think that will be hard on all of us. We've become accustomed to having family time together in the evenings at the hospital.

Again, we are grateful for all the help we have received and all the prayers. We couldn't get through this difficult time without you.

Love,
The Betz Family