We've rescheduled our Thanksgiving plans to be holed up at home rallying around Jacob after his chemo. It's best that we stick together, watch movies, stay low-key, etc. We miss the idea of mingling with friends and we wish that some family could have traveled this year.
Well, just heard from Jon and Jake's counts aren't high enough to get his chemo today. His ANC needs to be over 750 and his is at 714. So he gets make-you-barf chemo next Wednesday. Which means that if you look down the road, his next barf chemo will be Christmas Eve. This may just be another year that our family has Santa come a few days early.
This is the first time that chemo has been delayed due to blood counts. I'm actually surprised that they dipped this week. His ANC was 1100 last Wednesday. But I guess they continued to drop this week. His lowest ANC count was 400 back on October 2nd.
ANC stands for absolute neutrophil count. This is the part of the white blood cell count that indicates risk of infection. Jacob has been quite blessed to have his counts rebound so quickly and stay steady throughout his treatment so far. Dr. Mathias didn't indicate that she wished to start injections to boost his white blood count. I guess we wait til next week.
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Hey, that has been a long time. $ months, it seems just yesterday I heard the news. You guys are great, and are in our prayers!
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy the day just enjoying each other! Love you tons.
I liked your post about Thanksgiving (sorry, that was on the other blog, but I'm here now!). We are also doing simple this year - a rotisserie chicken instead of turkey, and rice instead of potatoes (something about being here makes us crave it). About the only homemade part of the meal was the cake and jello - both from mixes!
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