Busy Busy !

Once again sorry for such a long delay on doing a post, seems like we get more busy every day. Kensley has been doing really well for the past month or so. We had to take her into the E R about a month ago with a high fever and after it was taken care of, the blood cultures were coming back with a bacteria growing on them. We put her on some antibiotics to see if things would clear up but as the days went on things were staying the same. Certain bacteria's can get into the central lines that these children have and there is no way to kill them and clear them out without removing them. We had a weekend planned in St George for the relay for life and a concert at tuachan until Kensley's doctor called us and said they were really concerned with the bacteria that was going on. So Thursday afternoon we headed for salt lake and put her in the hospital that night. Friday morning they took her into the operating room and took her central line out and left an IV in her to treat her through for the next few days. We ended up staying until Monday which was scheduled for a round of chemo but they decided to hold that off for a week to let the infection clear up a little more before we wiped her system out again. Going back for a second sorry, through the weekend they would do a blood culture every morning to make sure the line was the source of the infection and it seemed to have worked because from the cultures after the line was taken out friday morning stayed clear. If the blood stayed clear for three days they would put a picc line in her arm to do the chemo through the next week, and then after a thirteen day coarse of antibiotics they could replace the central line. For those of you who are confused about a picc line and central line they are the same type of hose and have the same ends on them, the difference is the picc goes in at the inside of the elbow and goes up through the arm and drops down into the big blood vessel just to the side of the heart. The central goes into the chest and goes into the same vessel. Central lines can stay in place for up to a year if there are no infections that start in them. A picc line is typically only used for up to a month. So back to where I left off, we came home that Monday and started her thirteen day coarse of meds. The following Monday we went back up to do her chemo for a couple days and she handled it really well. Her little brother was pretty sick at the time and all she could think about was him and kept telling us he was sick while she was throwing up herself from the chemo :( We finished up her antibiotics later that week and then this past Monday we went back up to have her central line replaced and picc taken out. She seems to be doing really well right now which is a blessing and we just keep counting the days down until October when this is finished. We will try to keep updated a little better for you guys, and until then thanks for your thoughts and prayers. love Adam Jenni Kensley and Korbin