2 more days… only 30.5 hours

Its as if we are keeping track of when these hospital chemo ends or something 🙂

Today’s appt. is at 2 and then tomorrow at 11am Saturday.  Overall Brayden seems to be doing pretty well.  His numbers have bottomed (expected, but still a sad part of chemo) out so potential infection is one of the biggest concerns.  He also had such low counts that yesterday he needed a transfusion 😦 this is definitely expected but something we always like to avoid.  Although we were encouraged by the fact that the doctors were surprised this was his first one since induction (over 5 months).  So like we said, doing as well as can be hoped for.

These 2 appt. are suppose to be pretty simple, 2 hours or so, so that will be nice and then after Saturdays they will take out the port access which just makes life easier.  For the next 5 nights we have more oral chemo at home, which continues to go fairly well–so please pray with us that he continues to like the taste of coffee for at least 5 more days.  Then on Wed. we will celebrate being “done with this phase” minus 3 lab appointments to check his blood/counts etc.

This week we have started to expereince more and more of the symptoms from the chemo: vomiting, tired, anger, some leg pain etc.  This will continue and grow over the next few weeks until maintanence begins (hopefully around the first week of October).

Thanks for the continued prayers and support, I will keep trying to update this as much as possible.

DS

FORGOT TO MENTION the ultrasound tests came back and not cancer hiding in the testes 🙂 PRASIE GOD!!!!