Thursday

Good morning! Thank you so much for all the texts, gifts, meals,calls, FB messages and prayers this week. We arrived on Tuesday morning and Madeline's blood counts were much improved from the week prior.  Great news because it allowed us to stay on schedule.  Her room wasn't quite ready, so we ended up with a late start to the second round of chemo.  Honestly, I think Madeline was pretty happy that we got to leave the hospital to grab some lunch! Big smiles when she found out there would be a delay.  Tuesday overall was pretty good during the day. The nurses were impressed with how diligent Madeline was while she did her homework.  We finally convinced her to take a break that night to watch TV pretty late!  Chemo started around 9:30pm Tuesday. 

I had hoped this one would go a bit smoother but it's been a rough one for sweet Madeline with lots of nausea. Everything we read and heard indicated that this drug would be relatively easier than the last round of drugs, so all of us were a little thrown off to see her having such a rough time.  Brad and I planned to rotate nights because we thought this would be an uneventful week.  Madeline and Brad had a long night Tuesday, and Madeline ended up sleeping until 3:00pm Wednesday!  Rotating on bad nights doesn't really work... I couldn't sleep after Brad updated me late that night, so no one got much rest. Because of that, we both stayed with her last night.  The good news is that Madeline slept through the night Wednesday. Today she seems a tiny bit better, but still tired and not feeling quite like herself. 

Brad got her hooked on the TV series "Once Upon A Time" on Netflix the first night, and now she is halfway through season 1. The chemo completed Tuesday night, so we are just waiting for her body to clear the chemo drug and trying to find the right combination of food and medicine to help with the nausea.  We can go home once the chemo has cleared and we are hoping that may happen by Friday night, but we've also read this could take awhile... We have to be back next Tuesday to repeat this drug, so we are really hoping she'll get a couple nights in her own bed in between.

In other Prugh news, Ben has had a busy week with baseball and 8th grade football so we have been doing lots of driving back and forth to McKinney to cheer him on!  Baseball Monday and Wednesday and football Tuesday.  Tonight is free, so planning to bring him to visit Madeline this evening.  I will say that technology is pretty awesome.  It's nice to FaceTime with Ben when I'm here with Madeline.

Again, thank you all so much for the thoughts and prayers! And the t-shirts!!?  We can't believe how many t-shirts have sold!  Almost 400 as of this morning!  We are excited to wear them.  Madeline asked yesterday when we would have them to wear and we think around October 9th.

Tomorrow is the last day to order shirts:  http://www.booster.com/madeline_strong

Please pray that the nausea passes, that the medicine moves through her quickly, that we are home soon, and that the chemo is working to shrink the tumor in her leg and killing any other cancer cells in her body. Love you all so much. Thank you for thinking and praying for our family.