We survived the
weekend. I think my wife and kept an extra-watchful eye on E,
checking for new bruises, whether old ones were fading, checking his
temperature, and mulling over his energy levels.
He didn’t run a
fever at all over the weekend, and we noticed only a couple of new
bruises pop up. A few of the pre-existing bruises on his legs began
to shrink, and lighten up. As well, the purple circles under his eyes
stopped looking so dark, and large. As for his energy, he is still
tired, but he spent a good chunk of the weekend playing, chasing &
fighting with his brother, so he was a bit more back to his usual
self.
Today was the trip
into our satellite clinic for bloodwork. We had to put an EMLA patch
on him this morning. Today, E’s port was accessed to take blood in
case his levels had gone down. He was left accessed from after the
blood was taken until we received the results in case he needed a
transfusion.
The lab must have
taken about 2 hours to get the results back to us, and I was starting
to panic, thinking that something might have been wrong, or that they
found something, but no, they were just slow today. Both his
hemoglobin, and platelet counts are up, and his white cell counts
(including neutrophils) are at a good level. Despite being up, his
hemoglobin & platelets aren’t where they should be, but there’s
a current upward trend. We’re still on a chemo hold from the
oncology team at SickKids, and we’ll be there in a couple of days
for E’s bone marrow aspirate.
So, good news for
now...we just need to keep holding our breaths, and treading water
until he receives the full checkup at SickKids.
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