Clinic Report

This is the first time we have made a clinic visit from our new house. So, for our appointment at 8:30, we left the house at... get ready... 7:54. But wait, there's more - not only are we leaving an hour later, but Joshua and I went to Fido for breakfast and still had time to walk into the clinic by 8:30. Yes!

The appointment went really well. The little boy is not so little any more. In the past 4 weeks, he's grown half an inch and gained a pound. Joshua was a trooper just like always, and his counts were normal. In fact, they were high enough to where his doctor wanted to increase his chemo again. 

(Quick tutorial here - the amount of chemo fluctuates based on your blood counts because they want to keep the counts inside a certain range. If the blood counts are trending upward, your chemo goes up. Many times that upward trend is just due to the patient growing.)

Now, the only potential difficult news here is that the last time Joshua was up to this level of chemo, his counts bottomed out and we ended up in the hospital. So hopefully, with some of the other treatments meant to boost Joshua's immune system we have started, we can avoid that. All in all, a really nice day.

This also is a good time for a long overdue shout out to Michael's employer. He has been at Lifeway for about 19 months now, and he went to work there after Joshua was diagnosed. Between hospital stays, doctors appointments, and other cancer-related stuff, Michael has had to miss his share of work. And yet everyone there has treated us with grace. Now, hear me say that I know my husband makes sure to get his work done so he can miss work in those moments, but I also know an employer could be alot less forgiving than his is.

So thanks again to everybody for walking this road with us. Onward we go.