The last few days have been pretty good! Mac is taking longer naps which is great because I’m almost sure he was sleep deprived last time. We brought in our big exercise ball to bounce him to sleep and it works like a charm- been doing that since he was a newborn! 🙂 This is Day 4 and we have 8 days of chemo...

Today we got wonderful news. The results of his bone marrow aspirate came back and his MRD (how much disease still remains) was… 0!!! That means that as of now, Mac’s body is cancer free! It brought tears to my eyes when I got to tell Jeremy the great news. So he is now considered in remission! This doesn’t change anything with his treatment...

Well, let cycle 2 begin. Today was a whole different experience then when we started cycle 1. Last time, he was sooo sick from his cancer that we started to see him feel better with his chemo. Today was the opposite. He came in feeling great. They started his chemo this afternoon and pretty soon there after he started making a face like, “my...

I’m sure many of you know that we’ve been home for a week now! When we first started treatment I couldn’t imagine wanting to go home because it sounded scary. (and it would have been in those days) On Monday his numbers were high enough that he could recover at home. This is typical for AML treatment: 3-4 weeks in the hospital then a...

I am happy to report that a couple wonderful things happened today. 1st- every morning we get a print out of all his counts (white blood cells, hemoglobin, platelets, ANC #, and tons more) Well this morning the % of his white blood cells that were monocytes was up. The Dr explained that that is the first sign of numbers starting to trend up....