Rachel had her follow-up appointment with the neurosurgeon today. Everything is healing well from a neurosurgery standpoint. The doctor will be monitoring her future MRI scans to make sure her spine stays stable because they weren’t able to use the stabilizing hardware during surgery. He referred her to outpatient physical therapy, which should allow her to do more than what she’s been able to do with the few in-home PT appointments she’s had so far. It’ll be quite a challenge to fit in PT along with chemo.

We found out today that the pediatric surgeon is available to do the surgery to insert her port on December 14, so she will have the surgery that morning and then she will be admitted to the hospital and her first round of chemo will start later that same day.