The Count

"The Counts" came in on Monday and Carson had an ANC of around 880. That's good news! We'll continue all his medications as we have been, only now we won't have to give him bactrim on the weekends. He'll have a once a month IV of pentamadine instead.

Next Monday Carson is due for a vincristine push and will begin a 5 day round of steroids. Didn't we just do that? I will have to stock up on chocolate bars and any other sweet he might crave during that time. I'm sure we'll also be visiting Joe's Pizza this week too. Anyone want to join us?

Francesca is at PVS Long Course Eastern Zone Age Group Championships today through Saturday. This is the same meet she swam at in early April in New York. This time, the meet is in Rockville, Maryland. She'll once again be swimming against girls from all over the East Coast, only this time she'll be swimming 6 events. The competition is fierce. We will report the results in a later posting. We don't know what to expect. We are ALL worn out from a long and busy summer swimming season.

No matter what the result though, we get a break after this! No workouts, no swim meets until September! Yea!

Things are good here, but we can't forget our "cancer family" of which we are now a part. We have several friends who are will be getting scan results in the next few weeks. Another is in the hospital and just had surgery for what appears to be a relapse. Please continue to pray for all these families and children.

-Jennifer