Dreaming of Pizza

Spoke with E today. She sounds awesome! All the meds and her throat loveliness were preventing her from keeping food down, but sounds as though she threw back a few solid foods today. Let's hope for super extra calorie intake and nausea be gone!
Lara has been saying "hola" every morning to Sofia who's on our fridge... sending good juju!
(the way I see it, Erika could take on every one of these randoms on the Discovery Channel's "Alaska Project" that I have on right now)

Home

Just a quick note to say that Erika is home from the ICU.  Yeah!  Just to be amongst family in the comforts and the sunshine of 17 Mustang is huge.  After speaking with Audrey a day or two ago, she said that Erika was taking some meds that were making her feel nauseous.  I haven't heard the latest, but they were managing the nausea and will hopefully have her feeling all better soon.  More to come...

Friends... send along your thoughts and even just what you've been up to so Erika can read about it now that she's home.

-- Also, I had to attach a pic from New Years Eve in SF from 2006... love this one, and I don't think E has seen it in a while. 

Feeling Better

I spoke with Audrey yesterday evening who was in really good spirits about Erika.  She told me that Erika has been feeling a lot better the past two days, eating well, and taking a few walks during the day.  Her white blood cell count is wayyyy up! yeah! And the only reason she's still in the ICU is for occasional spikes in temperature.  E is super antsy to get out out out of course.  Sofia visited her mom yesterday and they had a great little catch up session.  The xrays of Erika's spine, etc. looked fine (no further growth of the cancer which is great!).  So we just need her to get perfectly strong again so she can get back to her chemo and radiation.  I think that's around the corner...

One other thing is that her cancer mutation is perfectly flagged for the chemo she's using (Audrey, am I saying that correctly?), so that is REALLY good news....

See you at home soon E!  xoxo

~Kira

Bring on Spring!

This is the first real update about Erika. She is doing great today! She had some issues with the chemo (she was able to handle all the radiation so well that they gave her the highest dose of one of her chemo drugs which knocked a bunch of good bacteria out of her). She's in recovery mode at the ICU which is great news. She didn't have much of an appetite last weekend, but since has regained that as well and threw back a burger and fries the other day hoping for a rotisserie chicken to follow. (Nice! - a milk shake and foot long to go with that? :) )
Anyway, I was lucky enough to spend last weekend with her family, and had the honor of watching Sofia for a good part of the weekend. What a dreamy little girl... the bluest eyes with dark eyelashes and smiles and gurgles of happiness all day long (well, unless she was a little overtired, but who doesn't get cranky in that case!). She and I had a few walks around the neighborhood. It was a joy for me...
E! You'll be home before you know it!!
~ Kira

Erika's Village

Friends,

I thought I would start a blog about our Erika so that everyone could be updated as real time as possible. Mostly, Erika refers to all her friends as her "village." Yep! It takes a village...
This blog will be a great way for you all to send Erika your support and also be updated on her war against cancer. As we all know, she is one of the strongest, most determined people we know... her strong will and love from you all will get her through this.

Just an introductory post. More to come...
~ Kira