Clinic Visit Monday

We made our way to the clinic on Monday for a counts check and everything looked good. Carson's ANC was a whopping 1280 with white blood cells, platelets and hemoglobin also way up. He set a weight record too....19.4 kilos.

This lovely jump in the ANC (without the benefit of steroids) leads us to believe that maybe it was the bactrim antibiotic that was suppressing his counts somewhat. We have not had this high of an ANC count in a while and the only thing that changed from two weeks ago (when counts were too low) was the deletion of the bactrim.

Next clinic visit is August 27. Until then, we will do our 5 day burst of steroids (hunger already kicking in) and continue the 6MP and methotrexate dosages as before. We had the vincristine push on Monday, so we don't have to worry about that for another month.

Things are good. It is a nice place to be right now. Praise be to God!
-Jennifer