Sorry we have not posted in a few days, but as they say...life does go on. We are just going on in a new "normal" way. Mikayla being the trooper that she is went to school all day on Wednesday and Thursday. We encouraged her to stay home for a little bit on Friday as she was exhausted, but she wanted nothing of that! I did end up picking her up from school on Friday around noon. I knew she was tired when she didn't argue with me. The side effects from the chemo this week have been pretty mild. Pretty much she is just tired all the time. The dr. did try to start weaning her off the steroids, but on Thursday her headaches returned. When another headache on Friday occured, I called the dr. and he recommended that we go back to steroids 3x/day and we will try again next week to start to wean.
She wants to be as normal as possible. Chris & I struggle with how much to let her do because we know she is so tired, but it is hard to say no when she wants to go somewhere. We went to the school carnival on Friday night and Grace danced today in a mini recital and she wanted to go along to that as well. She also wants so badly to be at school - she doesn't want to miss. She has already asked her teacher what she will miss on Tuesday and when she is at school she wants to go back and make up the things she missed out on. We have not let her go back to recess, so even during a time when she could play in the classroom, she wants to work on schoolwork! Now if that will only follow through the teenage years....
I read something the other day that really stuck in my head...."If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it." How true that is. We have always been taught and always believed that God will never give you more than you can handle. We now realize that how He is "bringing us through it" or how we are handling this situation is because God brought each of you into our lives as friends. You all define the word friendship. Never in a million years will Chris & I be able to repay the kindness that has been bestowed upon our family in the past month. Our only hope is that someday we will be able to "pay it forward" to someone else. Thank you again for all your thoughts and prayers. We know you are all busy with your own lives and own children and own set of problems and crisis' that occur. For you to take the time and pray for Mikayla means the world to us. - Sasha
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