Round 2:

After almost a full week back home, Hutton is back at UCLA for her 5 days of chemo.  We met with her team this morning before we were admitted to discuss her pathology results. Her diagnosis has changed from Ewings Sarcoma to Immature Teratoma with Sarcoma Overlay.  This new diagnosis will not change this week of chemo but will potentially change her chemo in the future. 

One of the reasons we switched from CHOC to UCLA was that they are constantly testing, researching, and monitoring her.  We have seen this firsthand today and it is reassuring to know there is a team monitoring her so closely. As a parent, you wonder if you are making the right decisions for your child (and in this case for her life) and second-guess decisions. The pieces that fell into place to get us here, and the pieces that keep falling into place reassure us that she is exactly where she needs to be. 

Please pray for Hutton this week as she goes through her 2nd cycle of chemo, for Steph while she holds down the fort at the hospital, and for J’s sanity as he makes the commute to work from Westwood to Seal Beach, and back.