Noelle has had two more cycles of chemo since our last post and in typical fashion it was not without a couple of hiccups. Cycle 4 was delayed one week due to platelets being low and then another week due to Noelle’s prescription insurance changing. 

Because of the change in her insurance she is with a different specialty pharmacy and they use the generic version of her chemo. This slight change has caused Noelle to get extremely sick the first night of her chemo week and then feel pretty much fine just tired the rest of the week. In talking to her oncologist we think we have figured out a solution, we’ll see what happens this coming Monday. 

Noelle had an MRI and oncology appointment on March 9th. When her doctor walked into the room he informed us that her scans were “boring” and that he liked to be bored.  This is in fact a really good thing, because that means that her tumor is not showing any signs of growing. Noelle’s type of tumor is an infiltrating tumor so it naturally wants to grow and spread, so by not seeing any changes over the last several months means that her chemo is working at killing off the remaining tumor. YAY!!!!!!  She still is scheduled to complete 7 more cycles but it’s very encouraging to see her progress so far. 

As a family we are so very grateful for all of the love and encouragement you have given us and we ask that you continue to pray for good progress in Noelle’s fight against cancer. You are all such an amazing blessing to us.