Time sure is flying! You got to remember our first 2 chemos we were “in house” and today was our first outpatient chemo. Our appointment was at 9:30am, and we got there in time- score one for mom and one for no traffic problems.
Chemo- is just- chemo… not much changes. The doctors were shocked at how much better Tucker is! Talking, walking, hand use ect ect. Remember they only saw him at his worst up when we were admitted so to see him today they were just shocked. It has been only 6 days since they saw him last. I told them well, sometimes you just need to be home to get better!! Tucker surprisingly enough had decent blood counts today. That shocked everybody including me. He still has good levels of blood, and his ANC count; that’s your immune system count - tells you how much of a immune system you have, was good! Normally at this point in the “game” you would have no immune system, that’s when you are at your highest risk of catching that cold & becoming hospitalized. So- it’s a blessing today, no matter how much it shocked the doctors- that his immune system had a “pretty good count” because we had Justin’s kids over the weekend they just left Sunday night at 8pm. Justin got a text at 3:30am in the morning from Jaired his oldest son saying they just got out of the ER. Lily has the “croup” and Jaired has bronchitis or something like that, but Jaiden is fine. So Justin and I really freaked out- we knew Tucker had to have little to no immune system to fight anything off… and here his kids were in the hospital right after spending the weekend with Tucker!!! So first thing when I got to his Oncologist I told them what was up with the kids and such and they said well, let’s not worry about it until after we see his blood counts. So THANK GOODNESS that his blood work came back really good, all things considered and he actually has an immune system! THANK GOODNESS THANK GOODNESS THANK GOODNESS!!! The doc’s just told us to try to be more careful next time, because the little immune system he has right now ought to be gone by the end of February and gone for…. quite some time. Justin’s kids are fine- they got meds and now are at home trying to get better. So other than that little moment, chemo went fine, Tucker’s spinal tap went smooth… and they had to put some “cleaner” in both of his tubes to clean out clots- but once that was done all the meds just pushed right through and we were good to go- at 3pm.. we got in at about 9:30am and we were out the door at about 3pm. Sure makes for a long day- but we are only 3 weeks into a 2 -3 year game, I guess I shouldn’t be complaining yet. It could be worse- we could still be in the hospital. We came home to a big box on our front porch- My upper management at HCA sent Tucker this awesome little care package! It was chuck full of candy, chips, toys, games like checkers and Yahtzee. It was SO COOL! It was like perfect timing also, just coming home from our first outpatient chemo to find a big box of goodies! It really put a smile on Tucker’s face and helped him deal with the little ICKY things better (sick tummy, legs hurting ect) because he had this big box to go through! Thank you Kim, Scott & Kelly, it was AWESOME!
Here are some pictures from Chemo today.
Love you all- amber
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