Saskia has been doing great the past few weeks. She did receive a couple of platelet transfusions. Doctors are still a bit puzzled as to why her platelets don't want to go up. The steroids she was on just prior to her previous chemo session did work as the platelet count went to about 70 which was an amazing result. The treating oncologist wanted to give Saskia another type of bloodproduct last week, which is supposedly better than the steroids, but suddenly her body "decided" to make a few herself, which is a little bit strange, but great news nonetheless.
Saskia has been in and out of hospital, mainly for the blood tests, but in between she managed to go to school and keep up with her social life. She starts to see her journey now more as a burden than ever and just wants to go on with life. Although the end of this stage of the journey is in sight, there are still a couple of major "roadblocks" to take.
This week on Wednesday she will have a CT and a bone scan while next week she will have an MIBG scan. These tests are to determine what effect the chemo treatments have had so far and to redirect treatment protocol if need be.
At this stage all we know is that there is one more chemo session to go through to finish the initial cycle; one major operation to remove all of the left over bits of tumour and all of the glands in the left side of her neck; one major chemo session to target the bone marrow and one radio therapy session (of 3 weeks) followed by maintenance treatment for about 5-6 months.
However this may all change depending on the outcome of these tests. Please keep praying for Saskia and all who care for her to not give up faith.
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