Oliver's ANC is down to 680 (from a total WBC of only 2.0, down trend again) which means we won't be getting our first treatment in this new round that was to start tomorrow. We will recheck his blood work on Thursday for a possible Friday start. This is 5 IV treatments of 2 drugs 10 days apart. Each one is count dependent, however.
No new oral drugs. He stops one oral drug tonight (which could have caused the counts to go down).
Other than that, Oliver does have a slight cold that he picked up from me. I feel better, but still have a lingering cough. Its hard to get over a cold while you are pregnant. Poor baby getting jolted from all the coughing done last weekend. I felt like I had done 1,000 situps at some point with the side pains from coughing so hard.
[do note that the baby is doing fine - I've started weekly non-stress testing and all has been well].
Oliver also started Summer School, but in the home since he can't attend the group enclosed atmosphere until he is in full maintenance with his treatments and the doctor clears him (by spring next year we hope). His fabulous teachers comes to sees him for these next 4 weeks. Then its break regular school year starts end of August. That will be tricky once he starts the intense treatment period.
Oliver is still moving forward with his motor skills he regressed on. Getting quicker in his step, less support going up stairs. Still not back to where he was before the diagnosis but we are getting there. Lately he has been super happy, super silly, very talkative and doing new things all the time. Stringing more words together making longer sentences (mostly from repeating what we say first, but doing some on his own with queues).
We will let you know how Thursdays numbers look when we get them done. We hope to start his treatment Friday (that means he has 2 more years left total time from that point, he would finish his maintenance period 2 years from now no matter when he starts that last phase (those run in 12 week intervals, so he will mostly only have treatments every 3 months with some oral drugs to go along with it).
