Kristin "Kourageous" Katich

Spring Vacaville, California with family they are smiling because there were gold coins in those eggs! My apologies for not posting for a while. Here is a quick update to be followed by an explanation for the title. Our family enjoyed a quick trip to Vacaville, California for Easter with my parents. The weather was lovely and it was nice to visit old friends. While we were there we picked up an awesome riding lawn mower my father gave to Darren. It has certainly helped out our yard maintenance efforts, but it still takes about 3+ hours to just do the mowing. Last week Kristin seem to come down with a cold and wicked cough. She flirted with a fever for about 24 hours earlier in the week and spent two days at home. Luckily it seemed to resolve itself just as I had decided to call, regretfully I may add, Oakland. Then, late Friday afternoon, Kristin called to tell me and said she was shivering, cold and had a temp of 101.8. Rats! Although the Broviac catheter has been removed, fever i

Any guesses to what she is thinking? Well, I am thinking that mundane would sum up the week thus far. Mundane as in being ordinary, uneventful and this is a good thing! Except for a headache that seemed to have Kristin down yesterday, the week has passed by quietly. Chemo has been the normal routine of mercaptopurine, methotrexate, and the last dose of prednisone for the month.

Kristin's clinic visit went well once she got there....Her appointment was scheduled for 3:00. School dismisses at 2:30 which should be plenty of time for her to make it to Renown. By 2:50 I began to wonder where she was so I called the clinic to see if little Miss Independent went by herself.(more about that later) They had not seen her. Shortly thereafter she called and told me she had been getting help for her math class and forgot. Once we got there she had an iv push of vincristine in her hand and all chemo has resumed with the addition of prednisone for the next five days. yuck......does not do this med justice or really any chemo for that matter. I will leave it up to your own imaginations to come up with a more appropriate word. Her next appointment is in four weeks and hopefully it will be smooth sailing until then. She is counting down the days until graduation. Kristin was accepted into BYU, HOT DOG , YIPEE , WOO HOO , and has plans to attend the summer session to get