March 3, 2021
We are about a month in to the maintenance phase of Aurelia’s treatment. My parent ALL support group told a lot of horror stories about this phase (which is 1.5 years long). To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect because it seems like a huge celebration to be finished with frontline treatment, but Aurelia still has to have chemo and other treatments so it’s not like we are done. The big news: Aurelia returned to school this week! School hours are from 9:15-5:15 (yes, long school day in this country) but Aurelia is attending until 1:15 (lunch) for the time being. She hadn’t seen her friends in person since June 22, 2021…. Aurelia loves her “Team Aurelia” shirt my sister sent: I’ll admit, homeschooling my child was often a struggle because we were dealing with so much on a daily basis and I had to try to keep her going with school stuff. Not the most fun teaching I’ve done, but we survived. We did a lot of baking with fractions and some things turned out better than others: Aure...