it's shrinking!

Carys's tumour is shrinking! We saw Lisa yesterday for a check up, and she was very happy with Carys's progress and the way she is tolerating the chemo. Lisa said she could only feel the tumour with deep palpations. The difference the past few weeks of treatment has made is striking. Before treatment started, the tumour was clearly visible as a bulge on the left side of her tummy. Now, we have to press deeply in order to feel it. Lots of smiles all round! We still have to do 2 more cycles of chemo before the next CT scan. It is great that the tumour is responding to the treatment, though the CT scan will let us know if it has shrunk away from the main blood vessels and spine to make surgery possible. We are very hopeful that this will be the case. Carys's neutrophils have dropped even more this week. I thought last weeks reading of 0.4 was the low point, and that it would start to go up again. But this week it was 0.25. So we need to be extra vigilant for fever and infections. Outwardly, she's still her same happy, active self. Less hair, but not a baldy like her daddy yet :)