Jackson can go low--too low. His counts landed him some isolation at home. He had his blood drawn Thurs. as usual and Thurs. night the oncologist called us at home (unusual) to say the lab had called him to let him know Jackson's ANC was in the critically low range of 200 (normal above 1000 -- below 500 out of school and public places -- under 200 possible hospital stay). This seemed strange to us as the boy had gone to school and basketball practice and was acting normal. So Doc. told us to run his labs again tomorrow to see if it was accurate. It was in fact accurate, labs below 500 again(400 to be exact) on Friday a.m. meant we had to pull him out of school on Friday, watch the Knights lose the playoff game from our Van on Saturday, and Jax missed church on Sunday. We will draw blood again tomorrow and I will run the sample into Moses Lake to get immediate results and hopefully the boy will be back in the game tomorrow. Pray for him. By the way Jackson thinks we are weird to keep taking blood from a kid who has low counts anyways!! Chemo this week if the counts go up--can you believe it's been 28 days already?!
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Man it really feels like he just got home from chemo! Things that happen every 28 days come way too fast! :) We're praying hard Jackson. It was so great to see you buddy! Hang in there!
We'll keep you in our prayers. Call us tomorrow with the new score of the blood game. I hope Jax wins. Love you bud!
These last couple of weeks have flown by. Hard to believe it is chemo time. Praying for higher counts!
Count Dracula! Those dreaded counts! Kick em in the rear Jackson. Where do those 28 days go? Love you guys.
Jackson - I love the look on your face. I feel the same way around a needle.
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