So far, the new year has been good. Matthew had to have a blood draw today, and technically it was supposed to be yesterday, but there was another mix-up with the home health care company. I'm concerned that Matthew has low counts, but won't know for another hour or two, or maybe even until tomorrow morning. But the visit from the nurse to get the blood went well. She accessed his Port easily, drew the blood and de-accessed. This is what it should always be like. He was scared, but very happy when it was done.
He wanted to go get a happy meal at the happy meal store. He asks for them a lot, and then doesn't eat them. When he's out of treatment, he'll probably hate chicken nuggets for the rest of his life.
His mood has been really unpredictable the last few days, almost as if he were on steroids again. He's sleeping a few hours extra in the morning, too. But during the day, he has energy. It makes me think maybe he's just tired from the chemo working through him. Especially if there really was an extra dose. But in addition to that, I'm seeing a lot of bruises on him. They're small, and might just be normal 4 year old bruises, but it seems like there's too many of them to be explained like that. He looks pale, but his lips are still pink, so I'm not too worried about his red blood cells. The bruising would indicate low platelets, but I don't know if I think it's dangerously low. It's so hard to guess. I suppose that's why we are doing the CBC.
Today is Mikey's birthday, so we're really hoping to get counts back by 4, so we can decide if our celebrations will be at home or not. We want to go out for dinner, but we'll see.
More to come later, after we have some results.
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