Dealing with Side Effects
It has been a long time since I (Monica) opened this blog, which I am beyond thankful for. It has been over 2 and a half years since Kenzi finished her cancer treatment for ewing sarcoma. The first year following treatment is honestly a blur, but since then life has mostly settled back into a normal routine. That being said, cancer has changed us forever and I miss those innocent days when I thought nothing so horrible would happen to our family. We have continued to go to Vancouver for regular CT scans, blood work and specialist appointments. They were originally every 3 months, but now they are every 6 months and Kenzi has "graduated" into long term follow up care. Ever since the surgery to remove Kenzi's tumor, she has been seeing the orthopedic specialist, to watch for scoliosis, which can be a side effect of chest and back surgeries. When we saw him this past spring, he told us that Kenzi's scoliosis was so bad it required surgery. That was hard news to take in