Team Ada

A couple of months ago I made this post on TikTok that went viral and a sweet person commented offering to do a session for our family. We were able to do the photography session tonight and they turned out so good.

I wanted to take professional photos of Ada documenting her journey. Her loss of hair. To show her how brave she is. To show that she beat cancer to a pulp.

Ada is brave.
Ada is courageous.
Ada is exceptional.

She is doing harder things than a majority of the adults that I know.

If you are in the Northern Illinois area check out Morgan Hagen photography! She did a great job and was so patient with my kids. And she has a heart of gold. 💛

Interim Maintenance 2

Ada got three forms of chemotherapy today. Vincristine, methotrexate and intrathecal methotrexate. Last time she got all of this she had really bad mucositis so we are hoping that the precautions that we are taking will help with that.

Princess Sofia came and found Ada to hang out with her before she went down to sedation. It was so fun and nice to see that the princess handler remembered Ada!

One of the PAs showed Ada how to use some kind of medical device for sedation!

One step close to maintenance.

My moms school that she works at had super hero day today and all wore their Team Ada shirts for childhood cancer. Ada loved seeing them all wear her warrior face on their shirts. So grateful that they are loudly showing their support for our hero 💛🎗️

Go Ada, go!!

For those wanting a Go Ada, go tshirt below is the link!

https://www.bonfire.com/team-ada-wear-gold-in-september/

Lab check to see if Ada made counts to start the next phase of treatment, Interim Maintenance.

Ada made counts but was sad that she needed to get her tubie.

Nurse Ruthie let us go with her to send the labs down which was cool to see.

While Ada was waiting to get accessed we heard another kid crying and screaming that they wanted their tubie out.

That used to be Ada. Ada still gets sad and it's painful for her but the anti anxiety medicine has helped her a lot. Still is hard to hear another kid go through that.

Photos from Curefest that were sent to me!

Ada is one of the 6,000 kids who were honored on the CureFest wall in Washington, DC this past weekend.

There were walls for survivors, fighters and angels. I hate that Ada is on this wall. I hope one day we can attend CureFest to help bring some much needed attention to childhood cancer and the lack of funding and research that it has.

If anyone is in DC look for this little girl at curefest! And send me a picture if you can :)

Clinic visit to switch out tubie. We wanted to see how Ada would do without her anti anxiety meds and she did so good! She even helped the nurse flush out the line! We had to get some sweet glasses and a new purse from target too to help with tubie.

there was a kitty at our appointment today🐈‍⬛
Ada got a new needle and everything looks good! Hoping that this week we have no mishaps that will cause us to go back into Madison before we are due to go in!