Day 17

The sun sets as another Sabbath begins.  This is the third Sabbath Jethenro is in the hospital.  He has not had a fever since Wednesday, the day his bone marrow appeared to wake up and start driving his defenses back up. We have much to be grateful for.  All the tests that have been taken to determine why he had continued fever have all  come back negative and Jethenro has been taken off of a few hard core antibiotics.  This has been an answer to prayer, as there was talk of needing daily infusions for 21 or more days. This would mean either home health or going into the daily infusion center of the hospital. We have a trip planned the first part of April, and that daily trip to the hospital for an infusion would have interfered .  There has been a lot of rejoicing today as we keep getting good news.  Jethenro's ANC more than doubled since yesterday, and the WBC  inches up little by little, day by day.
The Doctor  says that it appears they need to study Jethenro's protocal, as the chemo drove his defenses to 0 for much too long. Future dosage of that particular chemo may be cut in half or more.

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For the first few days, Jethenro slept or rested a lot.  As he felt better, he began watching tv, and a few days this week he has done some schoolwork as well.  He does not enjoy reading for pleasure~but we are working on that ;)