Yesterday's labs:

Hemoglobin 11.2 (Still normal, yea we don't need blood!)
Platelets 244 (Still normal, yea we don't need platelets)
ANC 566 (This has finally dropped, we will be staying out of public places)

Eli's ANC finally dropped, but too much for me....there is never a happy place. Part of it may be due to the fact that he has a cough. He also had some fluid in one of his ears...all of this could be causing the low ANC. We will just wait and see. They were going to increase his chemo again this week if the counts were still high, but now that is on hold.

Scary thing at clinic this morning. Eli has had a slight cough for a while, the docs actually thought it might be allergies or caused by his screaming at night aggravating his throat because there was nothing else to it. This has been going on for about 3 weeks. Well, this morning while he was getting his IV pentamadine, Eli started coughing and couldn't seem to stop. He then acted like he was really sleepy..then kinda fell asleep. Diane (The NP) put the pulse-ox on his finger and only got a reading of 94. Eli always runs a 99-100. So she called the respiratory therapist to give him a treatment of albuterol. He came in and gave him the treatment, then Eli perked right up. Diane thinks he may have just had a bronchial spasm...no big deal. There was neve a time where things were "critical" or even near it, but it still has me reminded that this is never normal. Anything can happen at any time. So now Eli is on an antibiotic as well as breathing treatments. It hasn't happened since then...so OK. Got to run... Pam is here to watch Eli. Thanks for checking in.

Maria