Chemo from home

I guess it's a good thing I chose a somewhat medical related field for my education.  Who knew I'd be a home nurse 7 years ago when I was choosing a career.  I suppose our Father in Heaven knew.  I still can't believe how quickly life changes.  A week and a half ago after our long day at clinic when I was driving home at 8:30 pm from a 10 hour day form the oncology floor I thought WOW!  I mean really...WOW!  9 years ago driving home at night on the freeway was scary...I mean really my family would FREAK out.  Now I'm driving home at night in Portland coming home from a 10 hour day at a clinic where I layed my daughter on a bed for probably the 11th time sedated for another spinal tap then had hours of infusion and several chemos and in between fed my other baby several times with help from my mother-in-law.  I guess my fears have certainly changed in 9 years as well as what "normal" means. 
Big tangent I know...the point of this post is...WE DID IT!!  We really did...the worst of the chemos have been given and all of our at home chemo is done. 

Here's our chemo setup...consists of a sodium flush, cytarabine (chemo), another flush and heparin..oh and alcohol wipes of course to make sure it's all clean so we don't infect her port. 

The 2nd week went much better than the first...it was much less traumatic for her she cried MUCH less and I even got to snap a couple pictures of what the poor girl had to walk around with for 4 days-2 weeks in a row.  I'm sure it woudl drive me crazy.  We used the coban to keep it in place this week and it worked much better.  She hated having her shirts taken off and always said "bye-bye" and wanted a shirt put on to cover it up. 

Our last day of chemo...such a champ just watching a movie and no tears. 

Our morning routine we aren't sad to see change:)

See that sweet little boy in the background?  Such a sweet little guy hope he isn't being put on the backburner too much with all the attention we give Gracie.  We love him SOO much. 

Look at that face...tell me you expected a cancer patient to look like that (other than the bald head).  I'm always amazed how happy she can be and how much energy she has after all they do to her.  She was runnign down the hall so happy