Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:34 PM CDT
Luke here. We've kind of been stringing everyone along as far as bone marrow results go, so I'll start there. We got a call with some info from the report late yesterday afternoon. The news was not as good as we wanted to hear, but good news in the grand scheme of things. One of his hips was clean, the other we were told showed "2% neuroblastoma". This left hip started at near 100%, so this is good, but we were hoping for clean. Susan took Nathan to the clinic today for an exam and platelet transfusion. His primary onc got to look at the report and he said the written report was confusing. It said "less than 2%" but also said something else that made him think that it should be considerably less than that. So he is going to the hospital tomorrow to look at the slides and results with the pathologist. More on that tomorrow hopefully.
Nathan is in the hospital tonight. His counts dropped drastically between Monday and this morning and he got a fever. We are lucky that this is only the second admission for a fever while his immune system is low. He was running a fever off and on during the day but didn't hit the magic number (101.5) until about 6:00pm when I got a 102.0 reading on him. At 6:30 we were on our way to the hospital. When we got there he had no temperature but they want to keep him to run antibiotics, do blood cultures, and just monitor him in general for infection. His fever was up over 100 again at about 9:30, but when I left at 10:00 it was down near normal. It is likely he will be in the hospital for a couple of days while his counts are low and his temperature bounces up and down. This is pretty normal for kids in treatment and we are lucky to only have had to do this on two occassions now.
Goodnight.
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