Today was a REALLY long day, so check back tomorrow and I'll post a nice big update from today's happenings. For now it's time for bed!
**UPDATED**
Clayton didn't have the best day today. After each round of chemo his counts will drop somewhere around the 7th to 10th day. We are on day 9. As his counts drop he becomes more and more susceptible to infections because his immune system is so weak. As we learned after the first round of chemo, Clayton seems to be a victim of throat sores during this neutropenic phase as well- which means no eating and drinking.
Long story short, all the above led us to check into the hospital yesterday in order to start him on IV nutrition so he doesn't lose anymore weight. After we got here Wednesday morning, Clayton started running a fever for which they had to do cultures and start him on antibiotics. Today we found out one of the cultures was growing something- meaning bacteria/infection. So now we wait to find out more.
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