We've spent the last 4 days sanitizing the whole house and steam cleaning all the carpets. Cassie, Ed, and I are sore and tired from moving furniture, scrubbing all walls and surfaces, and steam cleaning all the rugs.....those machines are heavy! It smells like a hospital in here now, but that will air out a little bit as time goes by. We have a regular cleaning schedule in place using the anti-germicidal solution, and will do a "deep sanitizing" with the "turbo-cleaner" we special ordered once a month to make sure Lia is not exposed to anything that would cause her to become sick during the chemo treatments.
Lia's immune system will be compromised due to the 2 chemo drugs- they attack both good and bad cells, so the danger of a fatal case of pneumonia is always present. She is on a preventative dose of antibiotics already.
Lia' first chemo treatment is underway as I type this update, and it looks like it will take about 7 hours this time. It's a very long day for them all, on top of 114 mile round trip. This will happen once a week. There are 2 chemo drugs - carboplatin and vincristine. So while one therapy will last about 10 weeks, then Lia gets about a 2 week break from that drug, the other drug will still follow it's own course, then break from that for about 2 weeks. So there will be about 14 months of treatments with the combination of drugs.
Keep Lia in your thoughts and prayers, please.
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