Jon and Geli went in to BC Children’s Hospital today for her last dose of chemo in this intensive phase of treatment.
Let’s pause for a moment and celebrate………WOO HOO! This is an amazing thing. It’s been such a very long tough year and although we are not quite finished this phase yet….we are so SO close!
Alrighty, now back to the matter at hand….in the normal fashion, they did blood work on Angelica and it came back…..well it came back not so good.
Her White Blood Count was at a .3
Her Hemoglobin was 79
Her Platelets were at a 44
This means that the infection fighting cells are almost non-existent. YIKES! And so at this exact moment, we are asking for prayer that Angelica would not pick up ANY bacteria and that she would remain fever free. Yesterday was the nadir from the last ARA-C dose and while we had hoped that she’d not drop any lower than she was last Friday, it looks as if she has….even if by just a point.
We are praying that her counts are now heading up.
We are desperately hoping to avoid a hospital stay this time around.
Geli’s appointment today was scheduled for this afternoon and as a result it was almost to late for her to get a unit of red blood before the clinic closed. Seeing as her hemoglobin was borderline, we are happy to have her not get the red because getting the red almost guarantees her a fever when her counts are this low.
So, we wait for Thursday, when her counts “should” be heading back up, and we will do another blood test then.
Please pray that she would stay healthy and not pick up any bugs.
Please pray for her counts to come up rapidly.
Please pray for the entire family to be at peace. We are hanging in there, but just barely. Everyone is feeling the strain of this past year and we are extremely ready for some down time.
