New School Year

Well, the new school year started off well.  Maddy snuck into school during the day on Monday to meet her teacher and look around the classroom.  She also had blood work done, but her counts were too low to start the next cycle of treatments.  Fortunately, this allowed her to Skype in during the first two days of school to participate in some of the "get to know you" activities with her class.  She had blood work done again today in hopes that she could start treatment, but her counts actually dropped from earlier in the week.  Now we are on hold until Monday again.  On one hand, we are glad we were able to make it through the first week of school without a hospital stay.  On the other hand, the delays just prolong this whole journey, so we tend to want to rush it along.  These are the times we have to remind ourselves to take it day by day and make the most of each of those days.  The future will be here soon enough!