No Mo' Chemo!

Tonight, we gave the final dose of chemotherapy to Scarlett.  After nearly 13 months, it has finally come to an end.

I heard this song for the first time as I was driving home from the hospital one night after her big surgeries.  Every time I heard it after that, I thought about how it was a perfect theme song for this day that I thought would never come.(I had to change the link, so here's the official video.)

We got Scarlett a pink frosted cupcake to celebrate her accomplishment.  She took a minute to warm up to it...

Then she began to tear it apart, without letting any of it touch her mouth...

 And by the time she was finished, she had successfully dissected it without tasting a single speck!

After a bath, she went to bed, just like every other night.  We enjoyed some celebratory champagne as we completed the final medication diary.

Tomorrow, we are right back into our normal routine.  She will never remember all the nights of gloves and syringes, and the subsequent days of sickness.  I hope that this is the end of an era, that we never, ever have to come back to this again.