I'm Riding For

Kolton

Year Two I'm excited to join the Great Cycle Challenge again this year! I'll be riding in honor of Hazel again. Update from Germaine (Hazel's Mom) April 2022 We started the long term maintenance part of Hazel's treatment in October, and have felt almost normal. we head to hospital every 4 weeks for port access, labwork, and a checkup. Every 12 with IT chemo, and 5 days of steroids. She does oral chemo every day at home (and likes the taste, thank goodness!), an additional oral chemo once a week at home, and her usual weekend prophylactic antibiotics. This year she started kindergarten, made friends with a classmate who is on a very similar jourrney...her "cancer buddy"! Her friend just finished treatment and got her port out within the last couple months, and we are so happy for them! Hazel's end of treatment date should be between Christmas and New Year's this year, with her port potentially coming out in early December! We've had a few hiccups so far, like ALWAYS being on isolation for hospital visits due to the never ending runny noses, coughs, etc, and some high liver enzymes which had us stop chemo for a week while they came down. Mostly though, as with frontline treatment, we have been incredibly luck and had a relatively easy time of it. Hazel continues to be a Rockstar, and we lover her so much!!