Filling the Bottomless Pit

Day 9 of 1,278

Just a quick note to thank everyone for the words of encouragement. Carson blazed through the procedures this morning with flying colors. We've been back in the room now for a couple of hours and haven't heard one complaint about pain from the bone marrow or spinal fluid samples. Like last week, the doctors also treated the spinal fluid with chemo.

Back in the room Carson had his yucky oral steroids and then had his chemo treatment. (What a trooper!) Again, there were no apparent adverse reactions. He is taking everything in stride. All I can say is he must get this from his mother's side of the family!

Carson's appetite still rules the day. He woke up before 5 this morning asking for pasta...which is what we were having when he fell asleep after 11 the night before! Unfortunately I couldn't give him anything...doctor's orders. He eventually went back to sleep, only to wake up at 7, absolutely famished! The hours between 7 and 10 - when the procedure started and they sedated him - were the worst. He was screaming out for food the entire time...something I'm sure he gets from MY side of the family!

Once he was awake and we were back in the room he ate like a trucker. His little mouth was chewing nonstop for over an hour!

After eating the doctor came in to say she took a quick look at the bone marrow. The full results will be back tomorrow, but in the preliminary look she said the marrow looked really good...she couldn't definitively see any leukemia. What does this mean? Looks like the chemo is kicking butt! We'll share the full results when we have those back tomorrow.

Go Carson!!!

Paul.

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