thanks for all the offers for dinner. Dinner for all 5 days next week has been covered by various people. Maeve's a lucky girl to have family and friends who love her so much! If you'd still like to cook for her, you can do round 3 or round 4 chemo. will update accordingly. For next week, please pray that she'll be able to withstand the chemo. She didn't handle it too well, with diarhoea, painful throat, high fever and coutns that dropped too low leading to a transfusion and an extra hospital stay. Pray also for protection for the rest of the family. Bernard is recovering, Paige still coughing and sneezing and very congested, despite taking medicine for more than 2 weeks. Maeve having runny nose and cough as well. I'm amazingly well, i believe due to supernatural protection! pray i continue to remain well as i can't afford to fall sick. my helper is also super strong ( i make her drink chicken essence too!!) and thank God for that as she is Paige's surrogate mum everytime we go to hospital.Pray for my neck and back, its all gone stiff and hurts all the time, I guess due to long sessions of pumping milk and sleeping in awkward positions (maeve needs to stroke my hand to sleep and needs to hold my hand whenever she's scared, which is a lot of the time), so one arm is immobilised most of the time.
I've been reading up as much as possible on Burkitts lymphoma (stage 2) and now know that it is highly treatable, up to 85% survival rate. On one hand, that is good news, but on the other, i wish i didn't need to think of it in terms of survival rate, because the hard reality is, what if we fall into the 15%? that sense of urgency, sense of time is running out, is always there, and i get constant nightmares about it. So I live everyday with my little girl like its the last day. Who cares whether her chinese is good? who cares whether she can count beyond 20? suddenly everything doesn't seem quite as important anymore. We have "school" at home, only because she likes it and loves learning. I guess before her head got shaved, it was easy to forget that she has cancer, but now with a shorn head, the reality slaps me in the face. I only pray that we'll be numbered amongst the cancer survivors with no incidence of relapse, and that she'll lead a normal life soon.
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