Emmy's Story Archive

You may be wondering why we’re traveling all the way across the country to this particular hospital and the answer is that they are one of the few and one of the best in the world treating children with cancer and she deserves nothing less than that.

Aside from our bicycling adventures, we’ve spent the rest of the time meeting with our new care team(s) from the proton and oncology departments. We're going through additional imaging (CT/MRI) so they can see the most recent pictures to determine our absolute best course of action.

Check out who made the Channel 5 News here in Boston!

That brings us to today. No chemo this week (thankfully), just more of a wait and see approach as we monitor her numbers and their anticipated drop. After completing a treatment run this tough she has historically needed multiple rounds of blood products (both blood and platelets) to get her through to the next step. Anticipating this, we have no intention of taking her anywhere far from the hospital.