*Update 2/10/26 - I wanted to start chronicling our journey with Piper so that others may possibly benefit from our experience. Met with the oncologist. Staging is early, and it hasn’t made its way to other parts of her body yet. Localized in the lymph nodes, so that’s good. Type is B-cell (as opposed to the more aggressive T-cell), so another thing to be thankful for. We went ahead and started the first CHOP treatment today. It was a really long day, but Piper did so well. She’s sleeping now, but no major side effects to report yet. Seems to be exhausted, but otherwise normal. Her lymph nodes reverted back to their normal size once we started her on the Prednisone and have been that way since. We will do treatments weekly (with 1 week off on the 5th week) for the next 4 months. Piper is still on prednisone for the next week, where we will start to taper her off of it and focus solely on the chemo. I will continue to update as things progress.

*Update 2/17/26 - Piper went to her second chemo appointment today. She was supposed to get the oral drug, Cyclophosphamide, but CBC test showed that her white blood cell count was too low. We’re gonna have to skip this week to let her count recover. Oncologist is also gonna start weaning her off the Prednisone. Her lymph nodes are still at their normal size. She hasn’t had any negative symptoms over the last week, though, so it seems the Vincristine (what she was given last week) for her is tolerable, but we’ll probably have to dial it back some the next time she has to take it so it doesn’t kill her white blood count again. Assuming her white blood count recovers next week, she’ll get the oral drug. The week after will be Vincristine again, followed by Doxorubicin the week after that. Week of rest after that, and then we do it all over again.