Surgery Update, Or Not

Sierra was scheduled to have her rotationplasty surgery done on Friday in Denver, but instead, at this moment, we are sitting in her room in the Oncology ward at Sacred Heart getting ready for her next round of chemo. With only a day more than a week until her surgery, we were notified that her insurance wont cover for her to go out of state for a procedure that someone locally can do. We did all we could to fight for her surgery to happen, but with little time, we had no choice but to get her going on her next round of chemo while the doctors work out the details for her to have her surgery done in Portland. We cant go too long with nothing happening for treatment because of the aggresive nature of this form of cancer to recur.
We are trying to look at this in a positive way, though it is very hard to be back in a place where we don't know what or when anything is going to happen. At this point we can only guess that her surgery will happen sometime at the beginning of July because we will have to wait for her counts to drop and then recover from this dose of chemo, which generally takes about 2 and a half weeks.
She did get to have an amazing birthday party yesterday though. We planned for a petting zoo to come to the house and they did pony and horse rides. And the kids got to touch all of the animals. Sierra was so excited, epecially when she got to run on the horse with one of the cowgirls. We were so blessed to have many of our family and friends there, Sierra felt very special, thank you. I will have lots of pictures to share once I get home and can go through them all.
So, for now, although we are frustrated that the surgery isn't happening the way it was planned, we are loving the fact that Sierra feels so good right now and we trust that there will have been a greater purpose for things to have gone this direction.