MRI, Clinic and Dex Pulse #5

Our visit to LPCH this month fell on Halloween.  Keira was excited to see her doctors all dressed up and totally scored on some extra treats at the hospital.

Naveen and I were just happy to hear that her MRI results came back clear!  Two years and no signs on the neuroblastoma returning!  :)   Hopefully this was Keira's last MRI, however, Dr. Twist felt that to be cautious we should do an ultra sound of her abdomen next fall at three years, as another way to make sure things continue to be clear without putting Keira through the anesthesia part of a scan.
No complaints from us on that one.

We also realized that the last four weeks went by really fast with not much to report.  We did have our yearly follow-up with Dr. Ambler, Keira's neuro-psychologist, earlier this month.  The test results looked good.  Keira is a normal 3 1/2 year old.  :)

Halloween was Keira's first day of her next Dex Pulse which was a bit of a bummer since she doesn't feel her best, but Keira didn't let it get her down.  Thursday and Friday were long days for her but she managed to get through it with some extra sleep and snuggles from her favorite people.

Love our little panda bear!

Princess Party

Keira was invited to her first Princess Party for Madison's 3rd Birthday.

We borrowed a Snow White play dress from a friend in case she wanted to dress up, however, she said she preferred to wear her SF Giants tshirt.


 Keira with Snow White and the birthday girl

Snow White's magic did rub off on her as the day went by... after singing, "Happy Birthday" Keira suddenly decided she wanted to put on then Snow White dress.  :)

 



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Halloween

October 31st was such a busy day!

 After Keira's parade, Akemi has a Physical Therapy session with Jackie to check out her asymmetrical crawling. Pretty cool to have a superhero evaluate your kid!

 

 Then we headed over to LPCH to meet Naveen and Keira for our monthly Clinic Visit. Keira got a little trick-or-treating in at the hospital and had a lot of fun seeing her doctors all dressed up!

I love this picture of K and Dr. E

 Then it was off to the Bahar's for pizza and more trick-or-treating with friends.



Akemi also got to put on her costume.
Since Keira is our "Panda Bear" we thought it was appropriate for Akemi to be our "Koala Bear."

 


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Halloween Parade

Keira was super excited about her panda costume this year. We've been calling her "Panda Bear" for a few years now so we weren't surprised when she asked if she could be a panda for Halloween.  Grandma bought her a pair of panda pj's when she was 18 months old and the nickname (1 of many!) stuck. 



Naveen, Akemi and I were all lucky enough to be able to be part of the Little Stompers parade this year.  Akemi and I even got to be at one of the trick-or-treat stations passing out goodies.  It was fun to see Keira trotting around from station to station with all her friends from school.

As luck would have it, October 31st was Keira's first day of her dex pulse but she was too excited about all the festivities to let the extra steroids bother her too much.  :)





Check out that cute little tail!


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