Three months!

Hello everyone! So there has been a lot going on here at home. Jilly has been able to stay home for the last couple of weeks trying to count recover from her last intense dose of chemo. She has been staying at a low ANC for a while now. Today's labs had her at 206 ANC. All her other numbers look great but her body is taking a little longer to recover her ANC. It's all expected so we are not too concerned. She has not gotten sick or ran a fever since she's had low numbers so we have been able to stay home and ride it our here. Which has been nice considering we are coming up on three months away!! We knew that consolidation could possible hold a three month stay up in palo alto but we were hoping our wonderful oncologist would decide against it and let us go home. But nope! Right now we are just waiting for Jill's ANC to get up to at least five hundred and then we will head up to Stanford for a week of intense chemo and two-three weeks of staying locally just in case something was to happen to Jill and she would need to get to the hospital fast. Because this phase of chemo is so intense her Doctor wants her close so she can watch her carefully. This will be done for three months and then we will be able to come home. Even if Jill's numbers are high and everything looks great her oncologist still wants her to stay up near the hospital. It will be hard on all of us as a family being away from each other for so long but we know this is just what is necessary for Jillian to get better. And what's three months out of the years and years that Jillian has ahead of her!

As always she is still in high spirits. She doesn't understand the length of time that we will be away for but she is happy to be heading back to Stanford for a while. She loves all the nurses and Doctors there and I try to make it as fun as possible so she enjoys being there. As of right now we are looking to leave on Friday depending on Jill's counts. Hopefully while we are there I will be able to find more time to blog and let everyone know how she is doing!

She got to visit with all her friends today at her school. She was so happy to see everyone and to visit with miss Sheere. She misses school so much and it's sad to tell her she won't be able to go back. She learned so much there and we are so happy to be able to visit everyone when we can! We also have a fundraiser that is going to be going on this Wednesday at a few restaurants that a family owns from new life preschool. We haven't had the time to promote it as much as I wanted to but I will attach the flyer here and if you can make it please do so!! Thank you to everyone who is involved in this fundraiser!! We are so grateful!

Also I have manages to get out some thank yous to everyone who's address that was attached to their Paypal account. If you have not received a thank you from us and you have donated to jillian can you please send me your address to my personal email. I want to be able to thank everyone personally but getting everyone's address gets difficult! My email address is rosemary.garcia25@yahoo.com

Keep those prayers coming for Jillian! She's still doing AMAZING and get oncologist says that she is "overwhelmingly" happy with her progress :-) couldn't be any better than that!!