I am really horrible about updating this blog, and I am so sorry! So Bella finished radiation on  February 11th and we were lucky to have a the rest of the week out of the hospital, The funny thing about  radiation is that she enjoyed it. The staff made her feel comfortable and she really liked going there. She still asks me every morning if we can go see Minnie. Minnie is one of the nurses that she nicknamed and she just loved her.

We had a clinic appointment yesterday for the first time since Tuesday and it was great to have the week off and out of the hospital. Bella need a platelet transfusion for the first time in about two weeks but they said that was normal and the late side effects to radiation, Other than that everything was great. She is even growing eye lashes and has hair coming back. The big surprise is what color, and texture will it come back as. It is like waiting for Christmas.

We will be starting testing either Thursday and Friday or Tuesday and Wednesday to get her ready for our next phase in treatment called Immune Therapy. I am still waiting on the exact time and date. She will have to go through almost all of the same scans she had several weeks ago before radiation to make sure that none of the cancer has come back. We are very lucky that she did not start out with the cancer being in her bones and that it had not spread anywhere else, so the scans are more protocol than anything. It is still long days in dirty waiting rooms and this momma bear becomes a little crazy about germs.