Friday

Morgan was feeling much better today and she was looking forward to coming home.

After meeting with the doctors and going over recovery at home, she left the hospital just before lunchtime. She then stopped in at Children's to drop off some paperwork and ended up meeting with her oncologist while she was there.

The doctor was very pleased with how well everything went and they discussed when Morgan should start her chemo again. We thought she would have a few weeks off to recover after the surgery but it turns out, she may be starting her chemo again this Thursday.

Even though the tumor was removed and she has tested clean in that area for cancer, she will still need to complete her chemotherapy regimen. The reason for that is ewings sarcoma is one of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancer. There is still the potential that microscopic undetectable bits of cancer are still floating around in her body. Studies have shown that surgery alone would not eradicate the cancer completely. It would just return either in the same spot or somewhere else in her body and most likely metastisize. The chemotherapy will further blast her body to kill off any and all bits of cancer left in her body and therefore, hopefully prevent it from spreading at this point and hopefully prevent it from ever returning in the future.