Quite a busy week for us! On Wednesday we had a follow up appointment with neurosurgery. Ashley’s spine looks good. I also got to see her latest scans on the computer. That was a bit sobering.

On Thursday we spent the day at the hospital again. We started our day in Cardiology and basically we’re going to keep an eye on her. There was a slow down in the shortening fraction of her left ventricle. It’s not dangerously low, but because there is a change it needs to be monitored. We’ll go back in a month after chemo wraps up and get another ECHO and see where we are at that point. In the meantime she came home with a Holter monitor and had some additional labs drawn to measure her heart health.

She then had a biopsy of what we think is the return of the tumor and we should have pathology results in the next week or so. We, of course, will share those results with you but in the meantime we’re asking for your prayers. It’s been a really long road for us (14 months) and just when we thought there was an end in sight, we have these new concerns and fears.

Thank you, as always, for your love, prayers, and support.