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August 25, 2010 Wednesday

Posted by Ann Shortes on Wednesday, August 25, 2010,
Last clinic visit:  8/20/2010 Counts: ANC below 1,000 but ok to resume chemo at home and start school

One year ago today, Oliver was diagnosed with ALL.  It is so hard to believe how drastically our lives have changed in that year.  In the last year, Oliver has undergone surgeries, several very harsh treatments, been hospitalized at various times, lost and regrown his hair, swollen up like a balloon from steroids to extremely tiny and fragile and has fought very hard for his life.  Larry and I...
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August 16, 2010 Monday

Posted by Ann Shortes on Monday, August 16, 2010,
Today Oliver received methotrexate via spinal tap, vincristine chemo via his port and his first IV IG transfusion.  He was premedicated with hydrocortisone (as is standard procedure as he had allergic reaction to his first transfusion of blood product).  All went well, no reactions and he recovered quickly from the spinal. 

Unfortunately, Oliver's ANC counts dropped to 320 rendering him severly neutropenic and on isolation restriction, so no tae kwon do this week :)  We also will again hold a...
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August 2, 2010 Monday

Posted by Ann Shortes on Monday, August 2, 2010,
Today Oliver's ANC was 1060 slightly up from last week but not high enough to resume full strength chemo pills.  He will stay on 50% methotrexate and mercapturine until his ANC gets above 1500.  Results also came back from his enzyme study, no abnormalities to report but we did learn the cause of his low ANC counts was due to low IGG levels.  He will need to start receiving monthly  IV transfusions of IGG.  These transfusions take 4-5 hours and are very similar to a blood or platelet transfus...
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