Susan here..
We went back to the clinic this morning and Nathan's white blood counts jumped way high after the nuepogen and his platelets are gettng better so chemo will start on Monday. I talked to his main doctor about the surgery and he is going to get us a meeting with the pediatric surgeon to talk about whether the tumor can be removed yet. Everyone who looks at his cat scans thinks that at this point his kidney would have to be removed with it. Going through the stem cell transplant with one kidney is harder to recover from. On the other hand there are risks to doing the transplant before removing the tumor in that it may not be as effective at getting rid of the cancer if the transplant is done with the tumor still in place. We are very happy to have this meeting though so we can start to examine all our options so that when the time comes for possible surgery we will be able to make a decision quickly if needed.
So - Nathan should be feeeling good this weekend and we will get out and about and enjoy it while we can
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