March 5, 2012

Going H-O-M-E!
Yesterday marked a full two weeks in the hospital, but tonight, we are going home!  Clayton is now fever free, done with his antibiotics and his counts have not been high enough to start chemo, so we are going home for a few days to recuperate while his counts continue to recover.
Home sounds a bit like a foreign concept these days, but we can't wait!  CAN'T. WAIT. I tell you!

March 2, 2012

Still here and in the hospital.   We are finishing  his antibiotic, which will be done Monday and waiting on his pesky platelets to come up high enough to start chemo.  Otherwise all of his counts are good.  When we finish his antibiotics on Monday, if his platelets are high enough, we will stay at the hospital and start chemo, but if they aren't high enough, then we will go home while we wait.
We have known that at some point his bone marrow would start getting lazy.  The doctor said it is common to wait a week or two, but if it takes more than that then we will worry.  In the meantime, we are all fine, just exhausted!  Clayton's days and nights have been mixed up for a while which has made for quiet days and sleepless nights filled with the irresistible laughter of a super cute little-man playing in the dark.  It is incredibly frustrating and precious all in one.

Shrinkage!

A few posts back I mentioned that an ultrasound revealed that the tumor had shrunk.  Here is a visual representation of a few dimensions the ultrasound gave us.  I'm a visual person, so this is for those of you like me.

The boxes dated 11-22-11 represent multiple dimensions (from different angles) seen in November and the same goes for the boxes dated 02-21-12.  Obviously the tumor is not a rectangle or even a circle.  It is a shapeless blob, so I figured that this would be the best representation to give everyone an idea of how much it has shrunk.