Thursday Sep 13, 2007

Thursday Sep 13, 2007

Update on my little man 9-13-07
Nathen has been doing alot better,last week we had several test done to see where the cancer stands... over the past three weeks we had cat scans done that the doctors had told us that his head scan showed that it was normal again and the one of his stomache showed that the lymph nodes that were all cancerous in his belly were gone and the tumor had calcified some.. Then last week they did the MIBG scan(neuroblastoma scan) and the doctor came and told me they were wrong all of it was still there.. his head, and his belly.. they said that it has shrunk some but there are no clear areas yet. they did a bone marrow test as well, when we first came in his bone marrow was 80% neuroblastoma cells and the bone marrow test from last week showed that one side had 20% neuoblastoma cells and that the other side had 30% Neuroblastoma cells..so the bone marrow has gotten alot better, we are hoping that by the end of this round of chemo that we started yesterday his bone marrow will be clear so we can harvest stem cells for his stem cell transplant at the end of the chemo and surgery. We have 5 days of chemo this time and we will be here for the whole 5 days and if he handles it ok we may get to go home. If he does the same as the last two times we will have to stay here til he gets better from the chemo which has been about 1 or 2 after the last rounds of chemo. I am hoping we will get to go home this time though, he and I both need to get out of here for a while.. it is taking a huge toll on us both. once again thanks to everyone....
Amanda