And Now We Maintain!!

It's finally here!
Gabey's ANC counts were up to 950, and his platelet counts were fine too, so we were able to go ahead with the first treatment of Maintenance!!

Gabey got his Lumbar Puncture with interthecal Methotrexate (chemo injected into his spinal fluid), and his Vincristine push treatment(chemo just injected into his tube).

For the entire 3 years, he'll have a Vincristine push every month, and the LP with IT MTX every 3 months.

His home meds will be...
Decadron- 2X daily 5 days a month
MTX oral- 1x a week (chemo)
6-MP- 1x a day (chemo)

Here are some pics for you!

s20 waiting room with cool fish


in dr. office, waiting to be canulated (have his tubey put in)


cute baby


daddy and Gideon in dr. room


playing in OR waiting room with his herbie and hummer


my first time going back into the OR with gabey!! jeff always got to go back before because the anesthesia wasn't good for me when i was pregnant.


back in the "train room" s20 family room, waiting for VCR push


hello electric car!!


we're on our way HOME!! (running down the tunnel to the parking garage)


cool picture of the cranes at CC- so many cool changes to the place, it's looking great!

Hopefully last week

I was really shocked. I was expecting to go ahead with treatment yesterday. I was positive that his counts would be over 1000, but they were only 490! The doctor said that maybe his body had to fight something over the week, wah. Well, so another week off. We'll be going on wed, next week, because thanksgiving is on thursday.

here are some pics for you....

Still Waiting

We went in today to check his counts, and they were still too low to go ahead with the next phase in treatment. It's not at all a surprise, we were all expecting it.

The good news is that the Lord kept us fever and sickness free this week!

And today Gabey's counts are up to 680. That's still low, but not in the severe range anymore.
The doctors said it would be ok to take him to the family parties this weekend. WOOHOO.
We have an early thanksgiving party, and my hubbie's birthday party at his mom's.

Shocker

We had our appointment today, and Gabey's counts are the lowest they've ever been. He didn't need any transfusions, but his ANC count is only 150. That was scary to hear. I can only thank the Lord that He's protecting Gabey. He's feeling fine, and doing well otherwise.

We're going to be really careful the next week, and limit visiters. The doctor said not to be surprised if we end up in the hospital for a fever. But, the Lord has kept Gabey from fevers so powerfully, I have faith that He can keep him well this week too.
It's, prayerfully, the last week we have to really worry about counts like this.