Updates & Prayers for Kenzi

~ Making Gingerbread Houses ~  After 50 days in Toronto, 46 of those in the hospital, 8 trips to the OR, countless hours in the waiting room, over 100 stitches, 1 giant tumour removed and only 3 short days at home, Kenzi and I (Monica) are back in Vancouver. There is no rest for cancer treatment and it's exhausting. After all the delays with surgery, there are only 3 rounds of chemotherapy left. This will take about 6 weeks and then Kenzi will possibly need radiation which could be another 4-6 weeks. We know there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel, but instead of relief, we just feel weary. The trip to Toronto and all the complications with Kenzi's arm, have broken her spirit. We still see glimpses of her usual self, but they are far fewer than they used to be. We hope and pray that she will adjust to being back in Vancouver soon, since it's familiar, but going home makes leaving so much harder.  We are so grateful to my parents, who put everything on hold and moved

 So haven't posted in awhile been a bit of a chaotic emotional few weeks. I(wes) am writing this blog so it wont be as smooth and grammatically correct as your used to hahahah (sry monica) So as many of you already know kenzi had her surgery. The surgery was very long 17hrs start to finish but it was a success and they were able to remove the tumour which we are thankful for(we will not know for certain if it was a clean remove for a month or so until the pathologist are done inspecting all the edges.)  This is what we have been praying for and waiting for since we started on this crazy stupid road. The surgery ended up being very invasive to say the least which we were hoping it would not be and was kind of a punch to the gut after hearing the tumour was out.  Took a few days to process and wrap our heads around this but we kept coming back to the fact the tumour is gone and this always made us happy. There was a complication with kenzi's arm after the surgery and she had to g