Let It Grow.......

Hi everybody!

Tucker hasn’t been able to do chemo for the past 2 weeks because he didn’t pass his blood counts. His ANC (Absoluteneutrophil count- basically where your immune system stands- any thing under500 is considered sever neutropenia-high risk of infection) had to be above 500 to get chemo, and he just now got up to 750 on Monday- so off to chemo we go! He is at chemo today and my wonderful husband, Justin, offered to take Tucker up today- I LOVE THIS MAN- its so hard for me to not be up there with Tucker,but on the other hand & almost as important is me trying to get a full paycheck especially with Christmas (ugh) right around (ugh) the corner (SUPER ugh!).

The fun thing with Tucker is just this past month his hair started growing like CRAZY- in-fact I think the last time he was at school which was before Thanksgiving he was still bald- with a little bit of fuzz- and now in the past couple weeks its just been growing like mad! His whole head is filled in AND he almost needs a haircut (my opinion)… but the little stinker reminded me that long ago- (ha, not that long ago- seem like forever… but it was just this year) - when he was very sick, I had- at a very VERY weak moment- I promised Tucker when his hair grew back in- *sigh* I would let it grow for as long as he wanted it to *big sigh*…without cutting it- but come on- I would have promised him the world at that point- he was so sick and pale and getting chemo and blood ect ect ect…he looked at me with these big tired sick eyes and said “Mom, when it grows back- promise me that I don’t ever have to cut it again.” Now most of you would think this isn’t a big deal, but one of my pet peeves is bed head or messy boy hair. I love the clean cut look but Tucker wants it long and he’s earned that right. The really interesting thing is its now coming back in a different color. The first little fuzz that came in was just the most beautiful light blond, in fact it still made him look bald- but there was a nice growth going on with that color. I thought for sure it would come in that light beautiful blond- but when it started just mass-growing… its dark brown! He’s never been dark brown, he’s always been blond-but hair is hair- I guess I should be grateful that 1)its growing back and 2)its not purple or orange or some crazy color like that (that would have been fun though!). The funny thing is a couple months ago when I would ask Tucker what he wanted for Christmas, he would just say “I want my hairback”… and he got his wish, Thanks Santa! LOL

Since our chemo was delayed by a couple weeks this puts us in and out of the hospital all through the holiday season- but its fine, it will be just fine.

On Monday night we went with the group called HOPE KIDS and went to the Living Planet Aquarium, it was a blast. The kids had a great time running around and looking at all the fish. It was super fun. Here is a family picture of us.

I will let you all know tomorrow how chemo went today & what the doc’s say.

Love to all

Amber & family