Thursday Clinic Visit - Maintenance Round 20

Today's clinic visit consisted of the following:
1) Port access
2) a blood draw
3) Vincristine (Chemo)

Today was a quiet day at the clinic. We finally got to see Dr. Keuker and he noted that Katie was "in the home stretch". We are now under the 6 month mark and I feel like we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. He asked me if we had discussed the date for end of treatment and I reminded him that we had a lengthy discussion a few months ago when we were trying to determine our Make a Wish dates. So, he confirmed that if she stays on schedule, her last clinic visit will be on September 30th, the last cycle will end October 14th! However, she will be starting school at the end of August and she will be in school on Thursdays, so her last 2 clinic appointments will probably be moved to Fridays, so this will probably be pushed out by 1 day.

This cycle will consist of the following:
Vincristine - Day 1 (same dose as previous cycles)
Methotrexate (oral at home chemo) - Days 1, 8 & 15 (same dose as the last cycle)
6-mercapturine (oral at home chemo) - Days 1-14 (same dose as the last cycle)
Dexamethasone (oral at home steroid)- Days 1-5 (same dose as the last cycle)

Next planned clinic visit will be in three weeks, May 27th.