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October 13, 2008 on 4:08 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

September 26th was his last appointment and his ANC was 7000. She was extremely happy with it and bumped up one of his chemo pills (6MP). He now takes an additional 1/2 of a pill on Sunday. He had been complaining of his legs hurting quite a bit and she believed it was from the vincrisitine. She said to watch him with this round and see how he does. He also began the 5 days of steroids. He did really well on the steroids this round and just ate a little more but wasn’t too grumpy on them. I was told to take him in 2 weeks to our local hospital to have his counts checked with the addition of the 1/2 pill to see how he was tolerating it.

October 4th.
Was Light the Night and we were very happy with our team turnout. Bryce Belt Brigade raised $4,628.92 and had 43 walkers!! We were so thrilled and lot of our team drove 3+ hours to be there. It was an amazing event and the kids had a wonderful time. We can’t wait to participate in the event again next year.

October 10th
It had been two weeks and so I took Bryce to have his counts done at the local hospital. While I was there I had them to check Brandon’s finger to see if the nail needed to be drilled. He smashed his finger in the van door on Tuesday morning and it was swollen and dark. They came in with an instrument that burned a hole in the middle of his nail and the smell was horrible! But it did the trick and by the time we were home his nail wasn’t black anymore. All the blood was gone from under the nail.

Okay back to Bryce, so we had finally left the hospital and I started to make a call and as it was ringing my voicemail popped up. So I hung up checked my voicemail and it was Frances from the clinic saying she needed to speak with me it was important Bryce’s counts were low and she was leavin in a couple of minutes. I call the line back leave another message and wait anxiously forever. It felt like forever it was probably only 5 minutes but I was worried. She calls and said his ANC was 580 how has he been. I told her he seems fine my husband and I have been sick but he hasn’t acted sick or anything. She said that maybe he was fighting off an infection just haven’t seen anything yet or maybe its from bumping up his chemo. So we are cutting his chemo doses in 1/2 until we find something out. She said if had been under 500 we would have had to stop it all together.

Well here it is Monday and he still acts fine, It’s great he doesn’t seem to be sick but then why are his counts low. I don’t think 1/2 pill is going to bring his ANC from 7000 to 580. So now we wait and worry until Thursday when I am to take him back for his counts again. Keep him in your thoughts that everything is good when we go!!