Kinslee is in REMISSION!!!

I'm sure most of you know by now but last Tuesday we got the amazing news that Kinslee is in remission meaning she has ZERO cancer cells left in her blood!!!  It is amazing that in 29 days they can accomplish this with chemo and steroids!!!  Thank you guys for praying for our princess!!!  We are giving God all the glory for answering our prayers and healing!  Our God is an awesome God!!!  Also on Tuesday we had our first clinic visit here in Abilene to check and make sure Kinslee's numbers looked good enough to start the next phase of her long 2 1/2 year journey of treatment!  Her numbers looked great even after coming off of steroids meaning she was ready to start the Consolidation phase.  This phase will be 28 days long.   
We started the Consolidation phase on Thursday and went back to the clinic at Cook Children's for another spinal with chemo injection as well as an IV chemo treatment.  She did so good that day!  She was so brave and didn't cry at all during the procedure :) this was a first for Kinslee!!!  It made the day go so much smoother for everyone!  I am so proud of my little fighter princess!!!!  She amazes me!!!  We also started an oral chemo we take every night before bed.  During this phase we will be traveling once a week for spinals and chemo injections.  She will have a total of 3 spinals back to back!  She's got two more weeks of spinals then she gets a week off!  The next phase is called Interim Maintenace I.  It is an 8 week phase.  It will consist of chemo treatments every 10 days for 41 days.  We should be able to receive most of these IV chemo treatments here in Abilene!  We will be traveling on day 31 of this phase for another spinal and chemo injection.  But we are so excited she will be able to get treatments so close to home :) 
The next 4 months of treatment will be intense but we are praying that she continues to do well handling all the treatments with minimal side affects.  We will also continue to pray for good numbers so that she can stay well and out of the hospital.  Her numbers have been greater than 1000 which means she is at low risk for infection but with flu and cold season here we are going to continue to be homebodies for the next couple of months!  We just can't leave anything to chance and we are totally ok with that!  We have already had to make a trip to the ER on Friday and we do not want to be doing that again anytime soon!  Kinslee was running a fever of 101.5 so we had to take her to the ER at 7:30 pm in the cold and icy weather :( bad timing!!!  They checked her blood counts, did blood cultures looking for signs of infection and gave her an IV of antibiotics.  Thank goodness they could not find anything wrong and sent us home for the night!  It was very scary but such a relief!!!  We are thinking maybe the chemo caused her to have fever!?!  I plan on discussing this with her doctor at clinic on Wednesday!  Hope everyone is having a blessed weekend and that you guys are staying warm in this crazy yucky weather!  Thanks again for all the prayers!!!  We appreciate everyone of them as well as the encouraging calls, texts, comments, cards, and gifts!!!  We are truly blessed with the BEST friends and family!!!  We love you all!!!!