Today was the last chemo day!  YAAY!  We are all done, and most importantly, Charlotte is done and has been the complete warrior during this time. We got to the clinic at about 9am and played for a little while before we went into an exam room.  They accessed Charlotte’s port, and drew some blood, then gave her the last Vincristine dose. ...

We arrived back at Albany Medical Center last night for what we understood to be Charlotte’s third of four chemotherapy cycles.  By about 9pm she was hooked up to the hydration drip, and when Mommy and Daddy left to go to Ronald McDonald House for the night, Charlotte was asleep soon thereafter.  Granny stayed with Char in the hospital. Anyway, this...

On Saturday evening, Charlotte got a transfusion of one unit of blood.  She then had some blood drawn at 4am on Sunday morning, with the counts going from 6.something and this had jumped back up to over 10.  I’m not entirely sure of the scale that is in use here, but this is much better.  8 is the cut of number that signals whether she’d...

Well, here we are… Sitting in a private room in D7North Ward of the Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center.  This all started about 20-hours ago, about midnight on Thursday night.  Charlotte woke up in a sweat, had a fever (101.9 F) and wouldn’t go back to sleep.  In the morning JoAnn called the Oncology Clinic and they said for...

We have added a guestbook to the blog which will allow visitors to the website leave messages for both Charlotte or Mommy and Daddy (or all of us!) You can reach this new page at http://blog.tobyandjoann.com/charlotte/guestbook/ or through the main navigation for the TEAM Charlotte website on http://blog.tobyandjoann.com/charlotte/ Please stop by and let us...

We are now home from a long weekend at Albany Medical Center.  We checked in on Thursday evening to get Charlotte started on hydration.  Daddy did the night-shift, allowing Mommy to get a half-good night of sleep at the Ronald McDonald House. Chemo was eventually started at about 11:30am on Friday, having the 4-hour Cisplatin course run through...