Alison had a 'port' inserted into her chest yesterday. It provides easy access for the nurses when she is getting her chemo which started up again a few weeks ago or has blood taken.
Seems that the surgery went well and it was a day surgery, in at 6:30am and back home again by 8:30pm. Bit of a sleepless night for her last night but she managed to get up and was driving the car today which was pretty incredible.
Unfortunately Ali has missed her last two chemo treatments as her neutrophils were too low (neutropenia). Seems that her bone marrow is pretty shot and not working as effectively as it should be to help her recover from the chemo. Happily we found out today from her doctor that one of the pharma companies (Amgen) agreed to provider her with two free doses of neulasta which should help with production of her white blood cells. We'll have to wait and see how it goes.