Mac had his last dose of chemo yesterday! It was so exciting and felt like such a milestone. I sure am grateful for chemo meds being strong enough to rid Mac of cancer but I’m really glad he’s done with them. It really is miraculous how well Mac responded to the chemo going from 91% to 0% cancer. His ANC was 1241 today. He...

Today is Day 5. This morning at 2am he had his last does of ARA-C. That’s the chemo med he’s been getting the most of and the one causing fevers and rashes. So now he only gets 1 chemo med a day and has just 2 doses left!!! The chemo is blue! It’s creepy if you ask me. Looks like gatorade. Well, we’ve made...

I seriously can’t believe we’ve only been here 3 days! Time in the hospital goes soooo slow. We checked in Monday and he had his bone marrow aspirate, spinal chemo, an ECHO, an EKG and started regular IV chemo. It was a big day. Unfortunately the last 3 days haven’t been so great for Mac. Soon after his first dose of chemo, we could...

Last Saturday Mac’s ANC was 188 and we got to go home! On Monday we went back for labs and a meeting with the doctors. We talked with them about doing the flexible sigmoidoscopy (a smaller version on a colonoscopy). They suggested we do that either now or after treatment to see if that reveals why there is blood in the poop. We decided...