"Whoever said winning isn't everything never had a child with cancer." - Anonymous

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Things here are going well. Eli woke up at 3am and threw up, so we gave him ativan on top of the other meds. That one makes him "happy". At 3:30 after everyone was gone and we had gotten him all cleaned up I turned out the lights and got back into my "bed". Then I heard "Moommmy, Mommmy where are you? Are you sleeeeping?" I told him to go back to bed and got again, "Mommmmy, Mommmy are you sleeeeeping?" It was really hilarious, although I wasn't laughing at 3:30 in the morning!!!

We started him on the glutamine today so hopefully he won't get any mouth sores....if he does, maybe they won't be so bad. It is a HUGE yellow bag full of chemo that he has been hooked up to for the past 22 hours, only 2 hours to go and we will be done with this round. This is another of those that they tell us to always wear gloves when changing his diaper...how scary is that, I'm supposed to wear gloves to keep myself protected from this chemical and there is a direct line pumping the stuff into my baby....that said, it is a miracle drug of sorts with leukemia, so if it works, so be it.

We didn't play much today, he seemed to be a little out of it. I imagine it was partly due to the chemo, but also partly due to the ativan. Please keep the prayers coming that we get this stuff out of his system quickly and things return back to our "normal". Thanks!!!

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