clinic visit and new radiation date

Today Nicole had clinic. Her ANC is now at 300-Yippee:)☺  Her body is fighting her infections and building it's immunity.  We can go out and enjoy the sunshine and play☺ I need a break from Disney princesses☺

She needed platelets and red blood cells.  That meant we would have a long visit, I wasn't prepared for a 9 hour visit. 

Her blood pressure keep getting higher and higher.  The nurse and Nicole Dr were getting concerned about it.  They gave her some medicine to help her lose some water retention to hopefully lower her blood pressure, it worked.  Then with a happy heart we headed home.

 

 

It's so good to see her happy and playing:)

 



They are also changing her date for radiation.  Nicole been so wiped out with her infections; her Dr. feels it would be best to give her one more week to recover.  We will start radiation on May 12.  Next week we will do her MRI and bone marrow aspiration test.

As I was sitting in clinic today I keep thinking of the video with  Elder Holland:

“Having grown up in southern Utah and enjoying all the wonders and beauties of southern Utah and northern Arizona, I wanted to introduce my son to that and I wanted to show him places that I had seen and enjoyed when I was his age. So, his mother packed a little lunch for us, and we took his grandfather’s pickup truck and headed south onto what we call the old Arizona Strip.

“Noting that the sun was going down, we decided that we’d better get back. But we came back to a particular fork in the road, really the only one that at that point was absolutely unrecognizable. I asked my son to pray about which road to take, and he felt strongly that we should go to the right, and I did as well. And we went to the right, and it was a dead end. We went four or five or six hundred yards and it was an absolute dead end, clearly the wrong road.

“Turned around, came back out, took the other road. And clearly the road to the left was the correct road.

“Somewhere along the way, Matt said, ‘Dad, why did we feel, after praying about it, that the right road was the proper one to take, the correct one to take, and it wasn’t?’ And I said, ‘I think that the Lord, His wish for us there and His answer to our prayer was to get us on the right road as quickly as possible with some reassurance, with some understanding that we were on the right road and we didn’t have to worry about it. And in this case, the easiest way to do that was to let us go 400 yards or 500 yards on the wrong road and very quickly know without a doubt that it was the wrong road and, therefore, with equal certainty, with equal conviction that the other one was the right road.’

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-09-016-wrong-roads?lang=eng

"When making decisions, God expects us to pray, trust, and be believing and then not give up, panic, or "jump ship" when something doesn't seem to be going right." (

We have had so many dates to start with radiation that sometimes I wonder if we will move forward with her BMT.  I do know, however, that the Lord is in charge.  He is the one leading Nicole care.  He knows the beginning to the end.  Sometimes we need to start down a road to discover that isn't the path we should be on.  We just need to turn around and start down another until we find the one the Lord wants us on.