So far it has been about as normal a week as one could hope for at our house. Cameron was discharged from hospital on Monday after his latest chemo dose was administered early that morning. This visit went a lot better than his first one, a bit more nausea but no fevers. He was also far more lively and even made a few new friends.
James is thrilled to have his brother home and the boys have been quick to pick up their usual routine of waking mom and dad up at the crack of dawn for their morning milk and cartoons. Mom has been great at administering Cameron's medicines and keeping the little man on his strict and complicated schedule - we have 4 pages of instructions on the refrigerator door to keep track of all of it. Grandma keeps the household running in an orderly fashion, which can be quite challenging with two energetic boys.
This week we need to keep a close eye on Cameron's blood counts which will drop and then stabilize and start climbing as we get closer to the weekend. The monitoring requires that his home care nurse draw blood samples every couple of days for analysis. Things will get really busy in a weeks time when he has his blood stem cells harvested. Once his counts are up they will be extracted and frozen to be transplanted back into his body in January. He will also have his bone marrow tested again to check on the effectiveness of the chemo therapy he has received to date.
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