Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year, and it was also the day we took E to our satellite clinic for bloodwork & chemo. He received a push of vincristine at the hospital, and later received his 5 dissolved-in-water methotrexate pills when we had returned home. Chemo on Halloween is definitely a trick, not a treat. We took him to the hospital dressed in his monkey costume, and everyone there loved it. We took him out trick-or-treating that night, but we only went to 4 or 5 houses with him. He's difficult because he wants to run everywhere. He doesn't yet understand what he's supposed to be doing, and he was rolling on the ground, which was soaked from the day's rain.
Still on Halloween, but mid-afternoon, we received a phone call with his blood results. His counts weren't so high anymore, and the neutrophils & white blood cells were closer to, and within normal ranges. The high counts have been dogging us for a few months now, and we've been a bit worried about it. We brought it up during October's parent support group meeting at Hearth Place. A few of the other parents told us that their kids had also had high counts during maintenance, and that it wasn't something to be overly concerned about. It's a reassuring to hear other parents' opinions & experiences, but it's also a relief to see the counts closer to where they should be.
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| Foggy, rainy Toronto on Halloween 2018. Looking northwest from the 7th floor at Scarborough Centenary. |
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| E the monkey playing in the POGO room on Halloween while waiting for his chemo. |
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