Haley has now completed 3 of her 4 inpatient chemo treatments . . . so far so good. She was supposed to go into Primary’s the Friday before Thanksgiving but due to low platelet counts, they postponed her treatment for three days. The worst we have seen so far from these treatments are the “never-ending nosebleeds.” The doctors have assured us that she will not bleed to death but they are disturbing nonetheless. One occurrence did land us in the ER for about five hours after one lasting about 1½ hours. Doctors entertained the idea of cauterization and “packing” but ended up leaving the blood clot in place to allow whatever blood vessel she broke in her nose to heal on its own. If any of you have seen the movie “She’s The Man,” we have gotten some very creative ideas of how to stop these nosebleeds from that movie . . . :) . . . We will let you watch the movie if you haven’t already so you can get a visual . . . oh my . . . it works surprisingly well! 
Dari was unavailable that week so Jessica accompanied Haley for her weekly stay. Thanks Jess!! She was supposed to be inpatient on Thanksgiving Day, but the doctors allowed us to take her home and set us up with an IV fluid kit so she could be home for Thanksgiving . . yay!! We did decide to decorate for Christmas early and despite her low blood counts, Haley was unbelievably energetic. At the crack of dawn she was packing bins up the stairs and spent nearly all day decorating. We can thank her now for our very festive and winter wonderland of holiday cheer she has spread through the house, elaborately decorating several rooms of our house.Dr. Spraker would not be happy with us if she knew we took Haley to Breaking Dawn . . . . We were very careful to bundle her up and did bring the Clorox wipes but our race to see the movie trailers and Haley’s refusal to miss them . . . needless to say we left the Clorox wipes behind.
One more inpatient chemo treatment until we move on to a two-month phase of weekly treatments similar to the induction phase . . . stay tuned and we hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!
